strength
nounEtymology
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”).
- inherited from *strangiþu✻
- inherited from strengþu
- inherited from strengthe
Definitions
The quality or degree of being strong.
- It requires great strength to lift heavy objects.
- Our castle’s strength will laugh a siege to scorn.
The intensity of a force or power
The intensity of a force or power; potency.
- He had the strength of ten men.
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
The strongest part of something
The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
- God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
- […] certainly there is not in the world a greater strength against temptations, then is deposited in an obedient understanding […].
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A positive attribute.
- to play to one's strengths
- We all have our own strengths and weaknesses.
- The compulsion to expose, renegotiate, or reinvent the strengths and weaknesses of dance tradition offers little in its final outcome to attract the average dance-goer.
An armed force, a body of troops.
- Thou princely leader of our English strength, Never so needful on the earth of France,
- That done, dissever your united strengths, And part your mingled colours once again;
A strong place
A strong place; a stronghold.
- All like himself rebellious, by whose aid This inaccessible high strength, the seat Of Deitie supream, us dispossest, He trusted to have seis’d […]
The minimum ratio of the number of edges removed from a given graph to components…
The minimum ratio of the number of edges removed from a given graph to components created, over all possible removals.
To strengthen (all senses).
- ſtrengthed with all myght / thꝛowe hys gloꝛious power / vnto all pacience / and longe ſufferynge with ioyfulnes
- Then ſhalt thow perceave what it meaneth that the power of this wretched monſtre / muſt be ſtrengthed / by anothers power and not by his awne.
- In witnes wherof we haue cauſed this pꝛeſent wꝛiting to be ſtrengthed with the ſeal of our facultie[…]
The neighborhood
- synonymability
- synonymasset
- synonymcapability
- synonymexpertise
- synonymforte
- synonymfortitude
- synonymmain
- synonympotency
- synonympower
- neighborstrong
- neighborstrongly
Derived
bandstrength, bench strength, bond strength, brute strength, compressive strength, crushing strength, dielectic strength, dielectric strength, fatigue strength, feat of strength, field strength, fore-strength, full-strength, gather strength, give me strength, go from strength to strength, impact strength, industrial-strength, industrial strength, inner strength, ionic strength, linestrength, measure strength, midstrength, on the strength of, outstrength, overstrength, party strength, peace through strength, peel strength, pillar of strength, position of strength, relative strength, retard strength, shear strength, show of strength, signal strength, strengthen, strengthening, strengthful · +23 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at strength. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at strength. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at strength
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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