strength
IPA: strˈɛŋkθ
noun
- The quality or degree of being strong.
- The intensity of a force or power; potency.
- The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
- A positive attribute.
- (obsolete) An armed force, a body of troops.
- (obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.
verb
- (obsolete) To strengthen (all senses).
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Examples of "strength" in Sentences
- Assess the strength of the competitor.
- The strength of the attraction is strong.
- She realized the value of yielding to the force of strength.
- She draws in curly handwriting the word strength on my wrist.
- His gusto is the source of energy and strength for the family.
- He was inspired by the force and the strength of the moving horse.
- The strength of the restoring force is proportional to the stretch.
- He was a profligate spendthrift of energy and strength, of nerve force.
- Share your obscure coolness with me, and gain strength from the sharing.
- The strength of the chains depends on the strength of the magnetic field.
- Strength measured in the absence of fatigue is called the inert strength.
- Depending upon the strength of the seasonality of babysitting, this might work.
- He became strenuous, diligent, modest, earnest, kind; he too, like Walter and Charlie, began his career "_from strength to strength_."
- The strength of a muscle is measured by the utmost force which it can exert _once_; its endurance by the number of times it can repeat a given exertion _well within its strength_.
- Sir Wm. Jones has added to the term, strength, _his own_; this we consider to be an error, at any rate it is not a mere translation, and we have applied the term used, _viz. _ _strength_ simpliciter, differently.]
- And we must use the� strength of this women’s commission and the strength� of the United Nations to end that war, to end the war� against the civil rights of women and the human rights� of women, and our children and people everywhere.
- On Tuesday afternoon, set against the sleek backdrop of a London hotel, the vice-chairman of Iraq\'s oil and gas committee, Abdul-Hadi al-Hassani, told the BBC that the time is right to invest in Iraq as the government has \ "gone from strength to strength\".
- In the revealings of such light, such exceptional hour, such mood, one does not wonder at the old story fables, (indeed, why fables?) of people falling into love-sickness with trees, seiz'd extatic with the mystic realism of the resistless silent strength in them -- _strength_, which after all is perhaps the last, completest, highest beauty.