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Strength
Definitions
- 1 The quality or degree of being strong. countable, uncountable
"It requires great strength to lift heavy objects."
- 2 the property of being physically or mentally strong wordnet
- 3 The intensity of a force or power; potency. countable, uncountable
"He had the strength of ten men."
- 4 capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects wordnet
- 5 The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based. countable, uncountable
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."
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- 6 physical energy or intensity wordnet
- 7 A positive attribute. countable, uncountable
"to play to one's strengths"
- 8 permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force wordnet
- 9 An armed force, a body of troops. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Thou princely leader of our English strength, Never so needful on the earth of France,"
- 10 the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation) wordnet
- 11 A strong place; a stronghold. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"All like himself rebellious, by whose aid This inaccessible high strength, the seat Of Deitie supream, us dispossest, He trusted to have seis’d […]"
- 12 an asset of special worth or utility wordnet
- 13 The minimum ratio of the number of edges removed from a given graph to components created, over all possible removals. countable, uncountable
- 14 the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty wordnet
- 15 capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war wordnet
- 16 the condition of financial success wordnet
- 1 To strengthen (all senses). obsolete
"ſtrengthed with all myght / thꝛowe hys gloꝛious power / vnto all pacience / and longe ſufferynge with ioyfulnes"
Etymology
From Middle English strengthe, from Old English strengþu (“strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *strangiþu (“strongness; strength”), equivalent to strong + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Dutch strengte (“strength”), German Low German Strengde, Strengte (“harshness; rigidity; strictness; severity”).
From Middle English strengthe, from Old English strengþu (“strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *strangiþu (“strongness; strength”), equivalent to strong + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Dutch strengte (“strength”), German Low German Strengde, Strengte (“harshness; rigidity; strictness; severity”).
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