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Definition: POTENCE |
POTENCENoun1. Potency; capacity. |
Etymology: Potence \Po"tence\, noun. [French expression, from Late Latin expression potentia staff, crutch, L., might, power. See Potency.]. (Websters 1913) |
"POTENCE" is a common misspelling or typo for: patience, potency. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bad Man | Phrase: Acherontis pabulum; gibier de potence. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: POTENCE |
| Etymologies containing "POTENCE": Potance, Potency, Puissance. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "POTENCE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (bracket, gallows, gibbet). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Étienne Brûlé gibier de potence (1952) Gibier de potence (1951) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "POTENCE": Flank en potence ♦ gibier de potence. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
potence | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "POTENCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Ukrainian | сила (agency, cloud, efficacy, force, iron, muscle, nerve, pith, potency, power, strength, vehemence, vigor, vigour, wealth), могутність (arm, mightiness, potency, power, puissance). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "POTENCE": potences. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "POTENCE": impotence, omnipotence. (additional references) | |
Words containing "POTENCE": impotences, omnipotences. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "POTENCE" (pronounced 'Po"tence'): intermittence. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: cenote, pecten, poteen. | |
-2 letters: cento, conte, copen, netop, pence, ponce, topee. | |
-3 letters: cent, cepe, cete, cone, cope, cote, neep, nope, note, once, open, peen, pent, peon, poet, pone, teen, tone, tope. | |
-4 letters: cee, cep, con, cop, cot, eon, nee, net, not, one, ope, opt, pec, pee, pen, pet, pot, tee, ten, toe, ton, top. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: conepate, potences, twopence. | |
+2 letters: competent, conepates, copestone, copresent, deception, exception, impotence, potencies, precentor, reception, twopences. | |
+3 letters: compensate, competence, competency, complement, conceptive, copestones, copresents, couplement, ctenophore, deceptions, exceptions, excerption, hypocenter, impotences, incomplete, nonreceipt, opalescent, perception, perfection, precentors, preconcert, prelection, prepotency, pycnometer, receptions, recoupment, telephonic. | |
+4 letters: codependent, coleopteran, compensated, compensates, competences, competently, complements, conceptacle, conceptuses, contemplate, contretemps, copartnered, copresented, copresident, corecipient, counterpane, counterplea, counterpose, counterstep, couplements, ctenophores, cyproterone, deceptional, deprecation, exceptional, excerptions, expectation, expectorant, hypocenters, impotencies, incompetent, interceptor, intercouple, kinetoscope, nephrectomy, neuroleptic, nociceptive, nonreceipts, omnipotence, pedogenetic, pentazocine, perceptions, perfections, persecution, plecopteran, pocketknife, polygenetic, preconcerts, preconquest, preelection, prelections, procurement, pycnometers, recoupments, splenectomy, technophile, technophobe, telescoping, uncompleted, unprotected, zeptosecond. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 54 45 4E 43 45 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- - . -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01010100 01000101 01001110 01000011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O T E N C E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 0054 0045 004E 0043 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50495439483739 |
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