| Main Entry: | energy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | generated power |
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application, burn, conductivity, current, dynamism, electricity, force, friction, gravity, heat, horsepower, juice, kilowatts, magnetism, potential, pressure, radioactivity, rays, reaction, response, service, steam, strength, voltage, wattage |
| Main Entry: | force |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical energy, power |
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arm, brunt, clout, coercion, compulsion, conscription, constrait, draft, duress, dynamism, effort, enforcement, exaction, extortion, full head of steam, fury, horsepower, impact, impetus, impulse, might, momentum, muscle, pains, potency, potential, pow, pressure, punch, push, sinew, sock, speed, steam, stimulus, strain, strength, stress, strong arm, stuff*, subjection, tension, trouble, velocity, vigor, violence, what it takes |
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powerlessness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | power |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical ability, capacity |
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applied force, arm*, brawn, dynamism, energy, force, forcefulness, horsepower, intensity, mechanical energy, might, muscle*, omnipotence, potency, potential, puissance, sinew, strength, vigor, vim, virtue, voltage, weight |
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debility, disability, impairment, impotence, infirmity, weakness |
| Main Entry: | propulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | force |
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drive, effort, energy, full head of steam, horsepower, impulse, momentum, muscle, power, pressure, punch, push, speed, steam, strength, stress, tension, thrust, velocity |
| Main Entry: | power |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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male, able, able-bodied, adamantine, adequate, all-powerful, almighty, antaean, athletic, atlantean, bellipotent, brawny, broad-shouldered, buirdly, capable, cervicose, cogent, competent, cryptodynamic, cyclopean, deep-rooted, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, endothermic, equal to, exothermic, forcible, galliard, gigantic, hard, hardy, herculean, ignipotent, impregnable, in fine feather, in full force, in full swing, in high feather, in the plenitude of power, incontestable, indomitable, inextinguishable, influential, invincible, irresistible, like a giant refreshed, made of iron, manful, manlike, manly, masculine, maximious, mighty, more than a match for, multipotent, muscular, omnipotent, overpowering, overwhelming, plenipotent, potent, potential, powerful, productive, proof against, puissant, resistless, robust, rounceval, sinewy, sound as a roach, sovereign, stalwart, sthenic, stout, strapping, strong, strong as a horse, strong as a lion, strong as brandy, stubborn, sturdy, thick-ribbed, unallayed, unconquerable, unexhausted, unquenchable, unshaken, unweakened, unwithered, unworn, up to, valid, vigorous, virile, well-knit, wight, wiry, yauld
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| Concept: | Power. |
| Category: | 2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT |
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-nouns
power; potency, potentiality; jiva; puissance, might, force, energy; dint; right hand, right arm; ascendency, sway, control; prepotency, prepollence; almightiness, omnipotence; authority; strength., ability; ableness; competency; efficacy; efficiency; validity, cogency; enablement; vantage ground; influence., pressure; conductivity; elasticity; gravity, electricity, magnetism, galvanism, voltaic electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism; attraction; vis inertiae, vis mortua, vis viva [Latin]; potential energy, dynamic energy; dynamic friction, dynamic suction; live circuit, live rail, live wire., capability, capacity; quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent [Latin]; faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility.
-verbs
be powerful; gain power., belong to, pertain to; lie in one's power, be in one's power; can., give power, confer power, exercise power; empower, enable, invest; indue, endue; endow, arm; strengthen; compel.
-adjectives
powerful, puissant; potential; capable, able; equal to, up to; cogent, valid; efficient; effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent; multipotent, plenipotent, omnipotent; almighty., forcible (energetic); influential; productive.
-adverbs
powerfully; by virtue of, by dint of.
-phrases
à toute force ["At full strength" (French)]; eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis ["He has snatched away the thunderbolt from heaven and the scepter from the sovereign"
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Antonyms: |
impotence |
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| Concept: | [Motion given to an object situated in front] Propulsion. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
propulsion, projection; propelment; vis a tergo; push, shove (impulse); ejaculate; ejection; throw, fling, toss, shot, discharge, shy., [Science of propulsion] projectiles, ballistics, archery., [Devices to give propulsion] propeller, screw, twin screws, turbine., [Objects propelled] missile, projectile, ball, discus, quoit, brickbat, shot., [Weapons which propel] arrow, gun, ballista (arms) [more]., shooter; shot; archer, toxophilite; bowman, rifleman, marksman; good shot, crack shot; sharpshooter (combatant).
-verbs
propel, project, throw, fling, cast, pitch, chuck, toss, jerk, heave, shy, hurl; flirt, fillip., dart, lance, tilt; ejaculate, jaculate; fulminate, bolt, drive, sling, pitchfork., send; send off, let off, fire off; discharge, shoot; launch, send forth, let fly; dash., put in motion, set in motion; set agoing, start; give a start, give an impulse to; impel; trundle (set in rotation); expel., carry one off one's legs; put to flight.
-adjectives
propelled; propelling; propulsive, projectile.
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