Strength
[streŋθ;streŋkθ] or [strɛŋθ]
Definition
(noun.) the property of being physically or mentally strong; 'fatigue sapped his strength'.
(noun.) the condition of financial success; 'the strength of the company's stock in recent weeks'.
Checker: Patty--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.
(n.) Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like.
(n.) Power of resisting attacks; impregnability.
(n.) That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument.
(n.) One who, or that which, is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security.
(n.) Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea?
(n.) Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work.
(n.) Intensity; -- said of light or color.
(n.) Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids.
(n.) A strong place; a stronghold.
(v. t.) To strengthen.
Checker: Monroe
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Power, FORCE, might, potency, puissance, nerve.[2]. Tenacity, toughness, solidity.[3]. Lustiness, brawniness, robustness, stoutness.[4]. Fortitude, courage, spirit, animation, firmness, resolution.[5]. Validity, cogency, efficacy, prevalence, soundness.[6]. Vigor (of style), energy, nervous diction.[7]. Support, security, stay.
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Definition
n. quality of being strong: power of any kind active or passive: force vigour violence: solidity or toughness: power to resist attack: excellence boldness of conception or treatment: the required consistency or degree of the essential element in any compound: intensity: brightness: validity: vigour of style or expression: security: amount of force: potency of liquors: available force or support: a fortification stronghold.—v.t. Strength′en to make strong or stronger: to confirm: to encourage: to increase in power or security.—v.i. to become stronger.—n. Strength′ener one who or that which supplies strength.—adjs. Strength′ening invigorating; Strength′less without strength.—On the strength on the muster-rolls of; On or Upon the strength of in reliance upon.—Proof-strength (see under Proof).
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Examples
- On the strength of Darcy's regard, Bingley had the firmest reliance, and of his judgement the highest opinion. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- His strength returned, and a month after the visit of Thomasin he might have been seen walking about the garden. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Take it and read it to me, for I have neither the strength nor the courage to do it myself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The giant, steam, demanded and received the obeisance of every art before devoting his inexhaustible strength to their service. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She turned white as death; she shook all over; she lost her strength. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Against artillery of the present day the land forts and walls would prove elements of weakness rather than strength. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Love, and her child, Hope, which can bestow wealth on poverty, strength on the weak, and happiness on the sorrowing. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Give _her_ life, and _me_ strength! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You have stood of your own strength ever since. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It is not sufficient that the bottom be strong; the sides likewise must support their strain, and hence must be increased in strength with depth. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- With wonderful quickness, and with a strength both of will and action, that appeared quite supernatural, he forced all these changes upon him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- By the above singular manner of building, strength is continually given to the comb, with the utmost ultimate economy of wax. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But I get hope and strength through you; and you believe that though appearances may rise against him, he will be proved clear? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But she's patienter than others would be, and is clever too, and always willing, up to the full mark of her strength and over. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- No, papa, I'm not nervous, said Eva, controlling herself, suddenly, with a strength of resolution singular in such a child. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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