(a.) Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.
(a.) Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(3) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
(4) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
(5) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(6) Therefore, we have developed a powerful new microcomputer-based system which permits detailed investigations and evaluation of 3-D and 4-D (dynamic 3-D) biomedical images.
(7) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(8) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(9) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(10) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(11) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
(12) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
(13) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
(14) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(15) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(16) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(17) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(18) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(19) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
(20) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).
Thunderbolt
Definition:
(n.) A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.
(n.) Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.
(n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
(n.) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
Example Sentences:
(1) About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along But Swartz's death came like a thunderbolt in cyberspace, because this insanely talented, idealistic, complex, diminutive lad was a poster boy for everything that we value about the networked world.
(2) There was nothing Reddy could do about super-sub Kwame Yeboah’s 89th minute thunderbolt , which keeps Brisbane at the top of the table.
(3) It has a taste so sweet that one is never enough and a kick as hard as a Roberto Carlos thunderbolt.
(4) TL: Tony leaped out of his P-47 Thunderbolt feeling so great about being alive.
(5) During the 17 years preceding March 1985, 140 patients sustained lightning injuries caused by 44 thunderbolts.
(6) 1.43pm BST Marin Cilic remains one of the great nearly men of men's tennis, a former top-10 contender, complete with a thunderbolt serve and a powerful net game.
(7) Faster Flash storage - up to 60% faster; wireless 802.11ac; Thunderbolt 2 connector.
(8) Less reliable predictions from analysts and the supply chain have claimed a cover with built in-keyboard is in the works – hence the invite line about 'we've got it covered' – along with a new Thunderbolt external screen.
(9) Samir Nasri puts Man City in the lead with an old-fashioned thunderbolt.
(10) Murray saved break point with a stunning cross-court winner in the sixth game of the fourth set, held, and then served out the match to love with an away-swinging thunderbolt down the T. “The way I feel today compared with how I felt after losing in four sets last year [to Roger Federer in the quarter-finals], I could barely move at the end of the match because I was so sore and stiff.
(11) Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe review Read more The case has sparked huge controversy.
(12) Kenny said the tapes, disclosed by the Irish Independent this week, were a "thunderbolt", adding that they showed "the contempt and the arrogance and the insolence" of senior people in the bank towards everyone.
(13) Describing the revelations as a "thunderbolt", the prime minister said: "This has damaged our reputation."
(14) "I thought: 'Here were go again' but this time he kept it down and it was a thunderbolt.
(15) Radja Nainggolan’s 30-yard thunderbolt felt as though it might be the prompt for a rout.
(16) A god of absence, of null, of nothingness – a god with no specific given name: somehow this seems more frightening than all the angry thunderbolt-throwers and purveyors of fire-and-brimstone put together.
(17) Poverty is still shot out indiscriminately but deliberately, like thunderbolts from the palm of Thor.
(18) Bale put the icing on the cake with a thunderbolt from outside the penalty area on the left that went in off the far post.
(19) "These tapes from Anglo are actually a thunderbolt, but they shine a light on a very dark period of Ireland's recent past that we want to get away from."
(20) Out of a clear blue English sky came a thunderbolt to eclipse anything the Rugby World Cup has ever seen.