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POTENCE

Definition: POTENCE

POTENCE

Noun

1. Potency; capacity.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.


Synonyms within Context: POTENCE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Bad Man

Phrase: Acherontis pabulum; gibier de potence.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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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).

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Modern Usage: POTENCE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Étienne Brûlé gibier de potence (1952)

Gibier de potence (1951)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: POTENCE

Expressions using "POTENCE": Flank en potence gibier de potence. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: POTENCE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

potence

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: POTENCE

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.

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Derivations: POTENCE

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).

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Rhyming with "POTENCE"

Words rhyming with "POTENCE" (pronounced 'Po"tence'): intermittence. (additional references)

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Anagrams: POTENCE

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: POTENCE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 4F 54 45 4E 43 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001111 01010100 01000101 01001110 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#84 &#69 &#78 &#67 &#69

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50495439483739

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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