Powerhouse

Definition: Powerhouse

Powerhouse

Noun

1. A highly energetic and indefatigable person.

2. A team considered to be the best of its class.

3. An electrical generating station.

Date "powerhouse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)

Synonyms: Powerhouse

Synonyms: ball of fire (n), fireball (n), human dynamo (n), power plant (n), power station (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Powerhouse

Specialty definitions using "powerhouse": AUXILIARY-EQUIPMENT OPERATOR ♦ Bulb Turbine ♦ ELECTRICIAN, SUBSTATION ♦ pump-room operator. (references)

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Modern Usage: Powerhouse

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Powerhouse (1982)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Powerhouse

Domain	Title
Books	Amazing Soy: A Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking This Nutritional Powerhouse With 250Recipes (reference) Basil Wolverton's Powerhouse Pepper (reference) Kids Write Right?: What You Need to Be a Writing Powerhouse (reference) Saban's Power Rangers Turbo in Simple Simon Says (Saban Powerhouse) (reference) The Pilates Powerhouse (reference) (more book examples)

High Tech	Fellowes Powerhouse 1000 Tabletop Shredder, Medium-Duty Office Shredder (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	COLEMAN OUTDOORS 295-700T Dual-Fuel 2-Mantle Powerhouse Lantern (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Powerhouse

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Powerhouse Foot Bridge - Caretaker Houses in background at Bear Trap. Credit: Merv Coleman.		Powerhouse and incline station, Mount Lowe Railway, Mount Lowe, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress.
	TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) powerhouse at Tupelo, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress.		Powerhouse. Bonneville Dam, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Powerhouse and navigation locks at Bonneville Dam, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.		Mine machinery, powerhouse and lifts. Ironwood, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Freeport Sulphur Company, Grand Ecaille, Louisiana. A powerhouse. Credit: Library of Congress.		Generator hall of the powerhouse, Chickamauga Dam, Tenn. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Powerhouse

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Spain is potentially a wind energy powerhouse. (references)
		As a regional economic powerhouse, South Africa continues to dominate the regional trade demand picture. (references)
		These countries range from some of the poorest in the world, like Mozambique to the powerhouse of Africa - South Africa. (references)
Economic History	Cote d'Ivoire	Still a regional economic powerhouse, Cote d'Ivoire hopes to retake its place in regional stability. (references)
	Trinidad	Abundant hydrocarbon reserves make Trinidad and Tobago a regional business powerhouse. (references)
	South Africa	Gauteng is the powerhouse of the South African economy, generating approximately 37 percent of the country's GDP, equivalent to 26 percent of the aggregate GDP of the 14 countries comprising SADC, and 9 percent of the continent's GDP. The service sector (including trade, finance, insurance, real estate and business services) is the main contributor to the provinces gross geographic product (GGP), followed by manufacturing. (references)
Political Economy	BELGIUM	Moody's top Aa1 rating for the country's bond issues in foreign currency reflects Belgium's integrated position in the EU, its significant improvements in fiscal and external balances over the past few years, its economic union with the financial powerhouse Luxembourg, and the reduction of its foreign currency debt. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Powerhouse

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Jerry Lewis	Look at this, you've got to look at this. You've got to look to two powerhouse women of the world. There is the two women that are keeping me alive, thank God. Everyone should have that, and I'm sure many do.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Powerhouse

"Powerhouse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Powerhouse" is used about 78 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	92.31%	72	39,377
Noun (proper)	5.13%	4	175,879
Noun (common)	2.56%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	78	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Powerhouse

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
powerhouse	372	powerhouse studio	9
powerhouse gym	333	cleveland powerhouse	9
bailey powerhouse gym	21	powerhouse theater	8
powerhouse pub	17	dance powerhouse	8
powerhouse gyms	17	powerhouse racing	8
powerhouse production	15	coach powerhouse	8
x 10 powerhouse	14	powerhouse product	7
fitness powerhouse	14	impex powerhouse	7
museum powerhouse	13	powerhouse tool	7
powerhouse gym franchise	13	powerhouse equipment	7
powerhouse uk	11	powerhouse gym austin	7
pilates powerhouse	11	hr powerhouse	7
2003 powerhouse	11	dallas powerhouse	7
powerhouse concert	11	powerhouse weight bench	7
kennel powerhouse	11	powerhouse home gyms	7
powerhouse supplement	11	powerhouse home gym	6
x10 powerhouse	10	powerhouse record	6
powerhouse gym chicago	10	dick powerhouse smith	6
powerhouse ticket	10	powerhouse gym michigan	6
dallas dance powerhouse	9	brisbane powerhouse	6
		electrical powerhouse	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Powerhouse

Language		Translations for "powerhouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		central elektrik (power plant, power station). (various references)

Arabic		‏محطة توليد القوة الكهربائية, ‏شخص نشط. (various references)

Bulgarian		човек с голямо влияние, човек с голяма власт, електростанция (power plant, power station), източник на власт, източник на влияние. (various references)

Chinese		大力士. (various references)

Farsi		موتورخانه , مرکزقوه محرکه , نیروگاه . (various references)

French		centrale électrique (power plant, power station). (various references)

German		dynamo (dynamo, generator). (various references)

Hebrew		תח� ת כח (power station). (various references)

Hungarian		gépház (engine house, engine-room), erõmûtelep. (various references)

Italian		centrale elettrica (power plant, power station, power-station). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		パレット車 (bread, pallet car, panning, parody, parotin, power, power amplifier, power elite, power lifting, power policy, power steering, power weight ratio, powerful, power-up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		パワーハウス . (various references)

Pig Latin		owerhousepay

Portuguese		poço de energia. (various references)

Russian		силовая станция. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		odlična ekipa, elektrana (power plant), čovek sa velikim radnim kapacitetom. (various references)

Spanish		persona enérgica (doer), central eléctrica (power plant, power station). (various references)

Swedish		kraftverk (power plant). (various references)

Turkish		forvet (forward, striker), etkin güç, enerjik tip (live wire), en iyi oyuncu, elektrik santralı (central station, electric plant, generating station, power plant, power station, power unit), dinamo (dynamo, generator, power plant, power unit). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Powerhouse

Derivations
	Words beginning with "powerhouse": powerhouses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Powerhouse"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "powerhouse" (pronounced pou"erhou's)
4	-er h ou' s	firehouse, slaughterhouse.
3	-h ou' s	alehouse, boardinghouse, boathouse, clearinghouse, clubhouse, coffeehouse, courthouse, doghouse, dollhouse, farmhouse, greenhouse, guesthouse, henhouse, hothouse, jailhouse, lighthouse, longhouse, madhouse, outhouse, packinghouse, penthouse, Playhouse, poorhouse, roadhouse, roundhouse, schoolhouse, statehouse, steakhouse, storehouse, townhouse, warehouse, whorehouse.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Powerhouse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-o-o-p-r-s-u-w"
	-2 letters: euphroes, oosphere, whoopees, whoopers.
	-3 letters: euphroe, hoopers, operose, preshow, rehouse, swooper, uphroes, whoopee, whooper.
	-4 letters: ephors, heroes, herpes, hewers, hooper, hopers, houser, ouphes, peruse, porose, porous, poseur, posher, powers, purees, pusher, repose, reshoe, reshow, rupees, rushee, shewer, shower, spewer, sphere, uphroe, uprose, wheeps, wheres, whoops, whores, wooers.
	-5 letters: ephor, erose, euros, ewers, heres, heros.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-o-o-p-r-s-u-w"
	+1 letter: powerhouses.
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