Strength

Definition: Strength

Strength

Noun

1. The property of being physically or mentally strong; "fatigue sapped his strength".

2. Capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war; "we faced an army of great strength"; "politicians have neglected our military posture".

3. Physical energy or intensity: "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "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; "cooking is his forte".

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; "the strength of his argument settled the matter".

6. The amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation); "he adjusted the intensity of the sound"; "they measured the station's signal strength".

7. Capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects: "the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks".

8. The condition of financial success; "the strength of the company's stock in recent weeks".

9. Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force; "they advertised the durability of their products".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "strength" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Strength \Strength\, noun. [Old English strengthe, Anglo-Saxon streng[eth]u, from strang strong. See Strong.]. (references)

Chemical Industry

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Physics

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Strength

Degree

Point, mark, stage; (term); intensity, strength; (greatness).

Greatness

Noun: greatness; Adjective: magnitude; size; (dimensions); (number); immensity; enormity; infinity; might, strength, intensity, fullness; importance.

Physical Energy

Noun: energy, physical energy, force, power; keenness; Adjective: intensity, vigor, strength, elasticity; go; high pressure; fire; rush.

Power

Ascendency, sway, control; prepotency, prepollence; almightiness, omnipotence; authority; strength.

Quantity

Noun: quan magnitude; size; (dimensions); amplitude, magnitude, mass, amount, sum, quantum, measure, substance, strength, force.

Tenacity

Noun: {ant. } tenacity, toughness, strength; (cohesion); grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion); sequacity; stubbornness. (obstinacy); glue, cement, glutinousness, sequaciousness, viscidity, (semiliquidity).

Crosswords: Strength

Behold, the dawn of a new age. My mutant plants have the strength of the deadliest animals (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Do you just want to lose weight, or are you looking to increase strength and flexibility as well (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Who now has the strength to stand up against both Saruman and Sauronand the union of the two towers (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

Strength of a woman (Strength Of A Woman; performing artist: Shaggy)

So give me strength, (Turn Back Time; performing artist: Aqua)

This love affair gives me strength (Isn't It Time; performing artist: Babys)

I'm gaining strength, tying to learn pull my own weight (Too Little Too Late; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

While you were the one with all the strength. (Wind beneath my wings; performing artist: BETTE MIDLER)

To forgive calls upon our love. To forget calls upon our strength. (references; author: unknown)

Humans are like tea bags. They never realize their strength until they are put in hot water. (references; author: unknown)

Where Our Strength Lies (1971)

Tuktu and the Trials of Strength (1967)

Weakness Into Strength (1958)

Magic Strength (1944)

Strength of the Pines (1922)

Tower of Strength (performing artist: Gene McDaniels)

Strength Of A Woman (performing artist: Shaggy)

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References

• The World Market for Ethyl Alcohol of an Alcoholic Strength by Volume of 80% or Higher: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Abdominal Training: A Progressive Guide to Greater Strength (2nd Edition) (reference)

• We Are Not Afraid: Strength and Courage from the Town That Inspired the #1 Bestseller and Award-Winning Movie "October Sky" (reference)

• Abstinence: Members of Overeaters Anonymous Share Their Experience, Strength, and Hope (reference)

• Mastery Through Accomplishment: Developing Inner Strength for Life's Challenges (reference)

• Actinide Speciation in High Ionic Strength Media: Experimental and Modeling Approaches to Predicting Actinide Speciation and Migration in the subsurf (reference)

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Periodicals

• Journal Of Strength And Conditioning Research (reference)

• Strength (reference)

• Strength And Conditioning Journal (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Living Yoga's Power Strength Yoga for Beginners (reference)

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Music

• Industrial F**King Strength 4: Chillin Is Killin (reference)

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High Tech

• Sima FSM Film Shield-Extra Strength Mini Pouch (reference)

• Sima FSU Film Shield-Maximum Strength (Ultra) (reference)

• Sima FSX Film Shield-Extra Strength (Large) (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Proctor-Silex 41331 Easy Morning 12-Cup Coffeemaker with Brew Strength Selector, White (reference)

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MIR during recovery-- sphere is made of high strength steel made in Finland. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Figure 53. Berget sounding machine, designed by Professor Alphonse Berget of the Oceanographic Institute of Paris. Prince Albert I of Monaco presented this type of machine to the French Academy of Sciences in 1911. The machine was designed for use in depths from 0 to 2500 meters. This machine was unique for its compact size and strength. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 48. Pettersson universal sampling apparatus devised by the Swedish Professor Otto Pettersson. This instrument would sample plankton, measure the temperature of the water, measure the strength and direction of the current, and sample the water. It was first used in the Skagerrak between 30 and 200 meters depth in January 1904 and afterwards in the Baltic Sea. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

GOES view of North America. The center of Tropical Storm Diana is heading back out to sea after crossing North Carolina. Tropical Storm Edouard is approaching its maximum strength of 55 knots in the southwest Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Norbert is deepening southwest of Baja California. Credit: NOAA in Space.

The F-22 Raptor successfully completed the 16th load static test recently. There are three more tests left in the process to certify the strength of the Raptors airframe. (Courtesy photo).

A volunteer ... tests his muscle strength on the hand dynameter ... / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by G.V. Hecht..

Mormon Elders Damiana Wafers. : Health, Strength and Energy. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"As the anti-submarine warfare carrier USS Essex (CVS-9) steamed toward a nine-day visit to Rotterdam, Holland, for the Christmas Holidays, crewmen formed the traditional Dutch equivalent of America's 'Merry Christmas' on the flight deck." "Essex, the oldest carrier still in operation, is deployed in the Eastern Atlantic as Flagship of Task Group 83.3. Through her visits to English, Dutch and German ports, 'The Fighten'est Ship in the Fleet' is giving our allies a chance to get a first-hand look at an example of America's naval strength." Photograph and caption were released by the ship's PIO under date of 29 December 1961. Destroyer in the middle background is USS Robinson (DD-562). Credit: NAVY.

In union is strength. We will fight it out on this line. Credit: Library of Congress.

Leading from strength or from weakness?. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To avoid these inconveniences, which disorder men's propperties in the state of nature, men unite into societies, that they may have the united strength of the whole society to secure and defend their properties, and may have standing rules to bound it, by which every one may know what is his. (Second Treatise of Government)

But with the development of industry the proletariat not only increases in number; it becomes concentrated in greater masses, its strength grows, and it feels that strength more. (reference)

Within two months from the coming into force of the present Treaty the personnel in excess of the above strength shall be demobilised. (reference)

We cannot afford, if we can help it, to work on narrow margins, offering temptations to a trial of strength. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. (reference)

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I should myself have shrunk from any thing so hasty, and she would have felt every scruple of mine with multiplied strength and refinement

Yet, if the clergyman were rightly viewed, his strength seemed not of the body

The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.

At terra at this fateful hour I call upon all heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lighting with its rapid wrath, And the winds with the swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness, All this I place,By God's Almighty help and grace, Between myself and the powers of darkness

You dream with your eyes open. God, if you had the strength to rouse up, you'd slaughter your half-dreams with buckshot

Bid him levy straight The greatest strength and power that he can make And meet me suddenly at Salisbury

Then health to go on was the need and strength to go on, and spirit to go on.

That the life I had since led was laborious enough to kill an animal of ten times my strength.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

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Health

Draw on your own strength. (references)

Muscle fibers stretch, and the heart loses strength. (references)

Collagen gives the cornea its strength, elasticity, and form. (references)

Business

Terms of payment depend on the relative negotiating strength of the buyers and sellers. (references)

Argentina’s strength is in supplying casing, tubing and drilling pipes, and parts for pumps. (references)

Therefore, their purchasing power depends on the overall financial strength of the customer. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

In 1998 the Government authorized 43 community radio stations with very limited broadcast strength, no foreign-language programming, no commercial advertising, and public announcements limited to the local area. (references)

Bulgaria

In the past, some private radio stations have complained that government policies allocating transmission strength on the monopoly state-owned radio transmission network give the Bulgarian National Radio programming an unfair advantage; however, there were no such complaints during the year. (references)

Economic History

Honduras

The military now is far below its authorized strength. (references)

Indigenous People

Nicaragua

The total strength of Yatama armed groups was estimated at 210 men. (references)

Political Economy

Austria

Its center of strength is rural Austria. (references)

COSTA RICA

Car bumpers are subject to strength requirements. (references)

Political Rights

South Africa

Three parties, the ANC, the IFP, and the AZAPO shared executive power, although the ANC dominated the Government and gained in parliamentary strength in the 1999 elections. (references)

Somalia

Although many such groups derive their authority from the traditional deference given clan elders, most face opposition of varying strength from clan groups and political factions. (references)

Jordan

Opponents of the measure claim that the consolidations are an attempt to undermine the strength of Islamist parties in local government, and that it will weaken the democratic process at the municipal level by reducing the number of locally elected officials. (references)

Trade

Russia

The Russian economy has shown some strength as it has recovered from the 1998 crisis. (references)

India

The Limited Recourse Finance Program provides financing for projects that are dependent on the cash flows of the project for repayment rather than on the credit strength of a purchaser. (references)

Venezuela

Longer-term financing is more difficult to obtain as the rate of inflation remains a concern, and financial institutions seek to interpret the Central Bank's exchange rate policy and the strength of the bolivar. (references)

Travel

Portugal

Legal contracts don't have the strength in business associations that personal confidence, built over years of experience, offers. (references)

Worker Rights

Tunisia

The UGTT's historic strength has frustrated efforts over the years by dissidents to form a viable, rival confederation. (references)

Botswana

In reality only the mineworker and diamond sorter unions may have the organizational strength to engage in collective bargaining. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Mountain of strength

God is my strength

Mountain of strength

The father of strength

Strength of the sea

Brother of strength

Strength

The strength of the Lord

The strength or sorrow of people

Strength

Strength of the Lord

Strength of walls

Our strength

Their strength

Son of strength

House of death's strength

In strength

Force or strength

Strength

Strength of the Lord

Strength

Expressions using "strength": adherence strength ♦ adhesive strength ♦ alcoholic strength ♦ Allerest Maximum Strength [OTC] ♦ Backache Maximum Strength Relief ♦ Bayer Low Adult Strength [OTC] ♦ Bayer Select Maximum Strength Backache ♦ be beyond one's strength ♦ bearing strength ♦ below its full strength ♦ below strength ♦ bending strength ♦ beyond one's strength ♦ bond strength ♦ bursting strength ♦ By main strength ♦ Clocort Maximum Strength ♦ coercitive field strength ♦ cohesive strength ♦ colour strength ♦ compression strength ♦ compressive strength ♦ connection strength ♦ Contac Maximum Strength [OTC] ♦ Cortaid Maximum Strength [OTC] ♦ crushing strength ♦ crushing strength at maximum load ♦ disruptive electric field strength ♦ Ecotrin Low Adult Strength [OTC] ♦ Extra Strength Bayer Enteric 500 Aspirin [OTC] ♦ Extra Strength Bayer Plus [OTC] ♦ fatigue strength ♦ fatigue strength at N cycles ♦ fatigue strength for finite life ♦ feats of strength ♦ field strength ♦ field strength unit ♦ financial strength ♦ flexural fatigue strength ♦ flexural strength ♦ gain strength ♦ gather strength ♦ gel strength ♦ go from strength to strength ♦ guaranteed ultimate tensile strength ♦ Hand Strength ♦ high strength low alloy steels ♦ increase the strength ♦ internal bond strength ♦ international actual strength ♦ ionic strength ♦ Junior Strength Motrin[OTC] ♦ Lateral strength ♦ magnetic field strength ♦ maximum crushing strength ♦ measure one's strength ♦ military strength ♦ mixture strength ♦ module strength ♦ moral strength ♦ muscle strength ♦ muster one's strength ♦ on the strength of ♦ on the strength of his promise ♦ Ornex Maximum Strength [OTC] ♦ pack filed strength ♦ pavement strength ♦ peacetime strength ♦ physical strength ♦ pick up one's strength ♦ pick up strength ♦ recover strength ♦ reduce the strength of ♦ regain his strength ♦ Regular Strength Bayer Enteric 500 Aspirin [OTC] ♦ required strength ♦ retain strength ♦ retained strength ♦ runway strength ♦ shatter strength ♦ show of strength ♦ signal strength indication ♦ Sinutab Sinus Allergy Maximum Strength [OTC] ♦ Sinutab Sinus Maximum Strength Without Drowsiness [OTC] ♦ spiritual strength ♦ strength of a monopole ♦ strength of an argument ♦ strength of arm ♦ Strength of Mechanisms ♦ strength of mind ♦ strength of the electric current ♦ strength of the voice ♦ strength of will ♦ strength reduction ♦ summon strength ♦ superior strength ♦ tearing strength ♦ tensile strength ♦ the strength of ♦ tinctorial strength ♦ torsional strength. Additional references.

Beginning with "strength": strength-in-depth, strength-sapping, strength-saving, strength-wise, strength-worship.

Ending with "strength": half-strength, high-strength, industrial-strength, size-strength, under-strength.

Containing "strength": high-strength brass.

Afrikaans

mag (ability, be able, be able to, be allowed to, force, have, have the right to, may, power, vigour), krag (force, vigour). (various references)

Albanian

fuqi (capacity, energy, exponent, force, intensity, lustiness, might, output, potency, power, proxy, ratio, vigor, vigour). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منة, ‏مقاومة (fight, impedance, opposition, refractoriness, reluctance, renitency, resistance, stamina, stand), ‏مقدرة (ability, capability, energy, potency, power), ‏متانة (durability, enduringness, firmness, solidity, soundness, stoutness, sturdiness, substantiality, toughness), ‏قوة (ability, agency, arm, authority, birr, capacity, clout, dint, energy, faculty, force, forcefulness, forcing, hardihood, intension, intensity, iron, leverage, might, operation, potency, power, severity, sinew, solidity, stamina, starch, stoutness, vehemence, vigor, vigour, violence, virility, virtue), ‏قدرة (ability, capability, capacity, faculty, fitness, leverage, might, potency, power, qualification), ‏صلابة (callosity, hardihood, hardness, hards, inflexibility, iron, perseverance, reliability, resistance, rigidity, rigorism, singleness, solidity, soundness, stability, steadiness, stiffness, stoutness, stubbornness, tenacity, toughmindness, toughness), ‏شدة (adversity, exaltation, ferocity, harshness, hindrance, intensity, misery, need, rigor, solidity, temperature, vehemence, violence, warmth), ‏بأس (hardihood, manhood, pith, pizzazz, puissance, sinew, sturdiness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съпротивление (opposition, resistance, resistor), сила на съпротивлението, сила (definition, drive, dynamism, effect, energy, feck, fiber, fibre, flush, force, forcefulness, forte, goodness, hardness, impetus, intension, intensity, inwardness, kick, lustiness, medium, might, mightiness, muscle, muscularity, nerve, pith, potency, power, prowess, punch, sinews, snap, stamina, stringency, tenacity, thews, tuck, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, vinegar, violence, virility, virtue, virulence, vis, volume, zap, zip), численост (numbers), трайност (durability, duration, endurance, fastness, wear), мощност (capacity, duty, force, power), мощ (energy, might, mightiness, momentum, muscle, potency, power, vigor, vigour), здравина (fastness, solidity, sturdiness, vertebration, vigor, vigour), ефектив (effective, effectives, force), издръжливост (bottom, endurance, guts, mettle, patience, reliability, resistance, sand, sinews, stay, staying power, tenacity, tensility, toughness, vitality, wear). (various references)

Catalan

força (force, vigour). (various references)

Chinese 

力量 (force, power). (various references)

Czech

síla (force, might, pith, potency, power, thews, vigor, vigour), váha (authority, gravity, Libra, scale, weigh, weighing machine, weight), pevnost (fastness, firmness, fixedness, Fort, fortress, keep, post, solidity, stability, steadiness, stronghold, strong-hold, validity), přesvìdèivost (cogency, persuasiveness), osazenstvo (crew, personnel), moc (authority, badly, clout, enormously, force, forcefulness, might, mighty, much, potency, power, sway, too, very), intenzita (depth, intensity, pitch). (various references)

Danish

kraft (force, vigour). (various references)

Dutch

sterkte (force, fortification, quantity, vigour), kracht (force, vigour). (various references)

Esperanto

forto (force, vigour), forteco (force). (various references)

Faeroese

megi (ability, force, vigour), makt (force, vigour). (various references)

Farsi 

نیرو (Blood, Brawn, Breath, Energy, Force, Gut, Leverage, Might, Pep, Power, Thrust, Tuck, Vigor, Vim, Vis, Zip), قوه , قوت (Accent, Bread, Emphasis, Intensity, Maintenance, Nourishment, Nutrition, Pith, Punch, Stress, Vis), تواناءی (Ability, Authority, Energy, Influence, Might, Potency, Vim), زور (Dint, Energy, Hustle, Might, Power, Push, Strain, Stunt, Thrust, Tuck, Vigor, Vim, Violence, Vis, Vivacity, Zing, Zip), استحکام (Backbone, Consistency, Granite, Grit, Rigidity, Solidity, Stability, Substance), دوام (Continuance, Continuity, Durante, Life, Permanency, Perpetuity, Persistence, Substance). (various references)

Finnish

lujuus (firmness, steadfastness, steadiness). (various references)

French

puissance (state, stoutness), force, robustesse (stoutness, sturdiness), résistance (stamina, stand). (various references)

Frisian

sterkens (force). (various references)

German

Stärke (amount, badness, body, brightness, force, forte, fortitude, Gage, gauge, heartiness, heaviness, intenseness, intensity, manpower, mightiness, potency, power, powerfulness, robustness, severeness, severity, sinews, size, starch, stiffness, stoutness, strong point, thickness, vigorousness, violence, virulence, wildness), Kraft (ability, agency, by, by dint of, by means of, by use of, by virtue of, dint, employee, energy, faculty, force, forth, fortitude, heft, help, impetus, might, on, power, puissance, through, verdure, vigor, vigour, with, worker), festigkeit (body, buoyancy, firmness, fixedness, hardness, solidity, solidness, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, stoutness, tightness). (various references)

Greek 

ρώμη (lustiness, lustriness, sturdiness, vigor, vigour). (various references)

Hawaiian

fuqi (force, vigour), force (force, vigour). (various references)

Hebrew 

און (potency, power, substance, wealth), בצר (ore), בורי (certainty, health), גרם (body, bone, cause), כוח (force, might, power), חסינות (immunity, privilege), חזקה (force, might, violence), אונות (potency), חוסן (might, power, sturdiness, wealth), סגוב (greatness, might), אול, מעוז (force, fortress, protection, redoubt, shelter, stronghold), איתנות (firmness, solidity), אילות (power), אמץ (courage, nerve, pertness, stoutness, virtue), אמיצות (boldness, courage), עצום (essence, force, gigantic, heavy, huge, immense, massive, mighty, thundering, tremendous, vast, walloping, whacking, whopping), עצמה (force, herself, intensity, might, potency, power, vigour, volume), עזוז (brave, courageous, heroic, might, mighty, power), עוז (forcel, fortress, glory, heroism, main, might, power, valour, vehemence, vigour), מרץ (drive, energy, force, liveliness, nerve, rigour, sap, sinew, snap, spirit, steam, verve, vigour, vim), חוזק (force, impregnability, intensity, might, nerve). (various references)

Hungarian

állomány (head, staff, stand, substance), tartósság (continuity, durability, fastness, impermanence, lasting, obstinacy, permanence, permanency, stand up, tenacity), szilárdság (balance, constancy, fastness, firmness, fixity, immobility, rigidity, solidity, stability, steadiness, sturdiness, substance), kitartás (durance, endurance, long-suffering, loylity, perseverance, persistence, persistency, stamina, steadiness, sustainment, tenacity, toughness), intenzitás (depth, intensity, zing), erély (forcefulness, snap, stamina, vent, vigor, vigour), ellenállóerő (stamina). (various references)

Icelandic

kraftur (activity, force, vigour). (various references)

Indonesian

ketangguhan (honesty, integrity, tenacy), kekuatan (efficacy, energy, erg, might, vigour), kegagahan (boldness, conceitedness, courage, firmness, handsomeness, valor). (various references)

Italian