| NOUN | attribute | power, powerfulness | possession of controlling influence |
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| phenomenon | power | (physics) the rate of doing work | |
| cognition | power, ability | possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done | |
| state | power, office | (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power | |
| person | power, force | one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority | |
| communication | power, exponent, index | a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself | |
| attribute | power, might, mightiness | physical strength | |
| group | power, world power, major power, great power, superpower | a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world | |
| phenomenon | power, electricity, electrical energy | energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor | |
| person | power, baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, top executive, tycoon | a very wealthy or powerful businessman | |
| VERB | consumption | power | supply the force or power for the functioning of |
| Sounds | paw'er | |
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| Rhymes | bellflower ... willpower: 32 rhymes with awer... | |
| Meaning | possession of controlling influence. | |
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| Synonym | powerfulness | |
| Attributes | powerful | Having great power or force or potency or effect |
| powerless | lacking power | |
| Narrower | control | Power to direct or determine |
| disposal | The power to use something or someone | |
| effectiveness, effectivity, effectualness, effectuality | Power to be effective | |
| free will, discretion | The power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies | |
| influence | A power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc | |
| interest, interestingness | The power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.) | |
| irresistibility, irresistibleness | The quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist | |
| legal power, jurisdiction | (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law | |
| persuasiveness, strength | The power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument / argument or entreaty | |
| potency, effectiveness, strength | Capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects | |
| preponderance | superiority in power or influence | |
| puissance | Power to influence or coerce | |
| repellent, repellant | The power to repel / repel | |
| stranglehold, chokehold, throttlehold | complete power over a person or situation | |
| sway | Controlling influence | |
| valence, valency | (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals | |
| valence, valency | (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate | |
| veto | The power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature) | |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Opposite | powerlessness, impotence, impotency | The quality of lacking strength or power |
| Spanish | poder, potencia | |
| Catalan | poder, potència | |
| Meaning | (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second) . | |
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| Category | physics, natural philosophy | The science of matter and energy and their interactions |
| Narrower | electrical power, electric power, wattage | The product of voltage and current |
| waterpower | The power to do work that is latent in a head of water | |
| Broader | physical phenomenon | A natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy |
| Spanish | poder, potencia | |
| Catalan | potència | |
| Verbs | power | supply the force or power for the functioning of |
| Meaning | (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power. | |
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| Synonym | office | |
| Category | government, governing, governance, government activity, administration | The act of governing |
| Narrower | executive clemency | The power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction |
| war power | An extraordinary power exercised (usually by the executive branch) in the prosecution of a war and involving an extension of the powers that the government normally has in peacetime | |
| Broader | state | The way something is with respect to its main attributes |
| Spanish | cargo, poder | |
| Catalan | poder | |
| Meaning | One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority. | |
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| Example | "the mysterious presence of an evil power" | |
| Synonym | force | |
| Narrower | Moloch | A tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice |
| influence | One having power to influence another | |
| juggernaut, steamroller | A massive inexorable force that seems to crush / crush everything in its way / way | |
| Broader | causal agent, cause, causal agency | Any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results |
| Spanish | fuerza, poder | |
| Catalan | força, poder | |
| Meaning | A mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself. | |
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| Synonyms | exponent, index | |
| Narrower | degree | The highest power of a term or variable |
| logarithm, log | The exponent required to produce a given number | |
| Broader | mathematical notation | A notation used by mathematicians |
| Spanish | exponente, índice | |
| Catalan | exponent, índex | |
| Meaning | Physical strength. | |
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| Synonyms | might, mightiness | |
| Broader | strength | The property of being physically or mentally strong |
| Spanish | fuerza, poderío, poder, potencia | |
| Catalan | força, poder | |
| Meaning | A state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world. | |
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| Synonyms | world power, major power, great power, superpower | |
| Narrower | hegemon | A leading or paramount power |
| Broader | state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic | A politically organized body of people under a single government |
| Spanish | superpoder, superpotencia | |
| Catalan | superpotència | |
| Meaning | Energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor. | |
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| Synonyms | electricity, electrical energy | |
| Narrower | alternating current, AC, alternating electric current | An electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally |
| direct current, DC, direct electric current | An electric current that flows in one direction steadily | |
| signal | An electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes | |
| Broader | energy, free energy | (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work |
| Spanish | electricidad, energía eléctrica | |
| Catalan | electricitat, energia elèctrica | |
| Meaning | A very wealthy or powerful businessman. | |
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| Synonyms | baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, top executive, tycoon | |
| Narrower | oil tycoon | A powerful person in the oil business |
| Broader | businessman, man of affairs | A person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) |
| Spanish | archipámpano, gran empresario, líder empresarial, magnate, mogol, potentado | |
| Catalan | gran empresari, líder empresarial, magnat, potentat | |
| Meaning | Supply the force or power for the functioning of. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Example | "The gasoline powers the engines" | |
| Narrower | drive | Cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling |
| Broader | provide, supply, ply, cater | Give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance |
| Spanish | alimentar | |
| Catalan | alimentar | |
| Nouns | power | (physics) the rate of doing work |
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