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Strength   /strɛŋkθ/  /strɛŋθ/   Listen
Strength

noun
1.
The property of being physically or mentally strong.
2.
Capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war.  Synonyms: military capability, military posture, military strength, posture.  "Politicians have neglected our military posture"
3.
Physical energy or intensity.  Synonyms: force, forcefulness.  "It was destroyed by the strength of the gale" , "A government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"
4.
An asset of special worth or utility.  Synonyms: forte, long suit, metier, speciality, specialty, strong point, strong suit.
5.
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.  Synonym: persuasiveness.
6.
The amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation).  Synonyms: intensity, intensity level.  "They measured the station's signal strength"
7.
Capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects.  Synonyms: effectiveness, potency.  "The strength of the drinks"
8.
The condition of financial success.
9.
Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force.  Synonyms: durability, enduringness, lastingness.



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"Strength" Quotes from Famous Books



... chest caused by singing low notes, and concluded that these notes are actually produced in the chest. To the lower notes of the voice they therefore gave the name "chest register." As Tosi explains it, "Voce di Petto is a full voice, which comes from the breast by strength." For a precisely similar reason, viz., the sensation of vibration in the head felt in singing the higher notes, this portion of the voice was called by the ...
— The Psychology of Singing - A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern • David C. Taylor
... The strength of that grip on his neck produced a salutary effect upon the excited Galician. He stood a few moments dazed, looking this way and that way, as ...
— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor
... he thought of Dacre and his look when all was lost: a look unchanged, unmoved; a look less of despair than the majesty of certain fate—a fate not new nor sudden, but chosen of his own calm will. A man of stone, thought Geoffrey; the incarnation of one thought; hardly human in his conscious strength. And yet, as Geoffrey saw him in the darkness of the night, his heart went out to him, and he felt that he loved this man as he had ...
— The King's Men - A Tale of To-morrow • Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, J. S. Dale, and John T.
... loud knock sounded on the door. "Come in," said the carpenter, not having an atom of strength left ...
— The Adventures of Pinocchio • C. Collodi--Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini
... strength to strength this apparently dreamy lad had climbed the giddy rungs of fame until, at the outbreak of war, he stood with the ball at his feet and the title of Deputy General Manager of the N.E.R. It was he who had invented the system whereby the handle of the heating apparatus ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920 • Various


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