strength (str ngkth, strngth, strnth)n. Idiom: 1. The state, property, or quality of being strong. 2. The power to resist attack; impregnability. 3. The power to resist strain or stress; durability. 4. The ability to maintain a moral or intellectual position firmly. 5. Capacity or potential for effective action: a show of strength. 6. a. The number of people constituting a normal or ideal organization: The police force has been at half strength since the budget cuts. b. Military capability in terms of personnel and materiel: an army of fearsome strength. 7. a. A source of power or force. b. One that is regarded as the embodiment of protective or supportive power; a support or mainstay. c. An attribute or quality of particular worth or utility; an asset. 8. Degree of intensity, force, effectiveness, or potency in terms of a particular property, as: a. Degree of concentration, distillation, or saturation; potency. b. Operative effectiveness or potency. c. Intensity, as of sound or light. d. Intensity or vehemence, as of emotion or language. 9. Effective or binding force; efficacy: the strength of an argument. 10. Firmness of or a continuous rising tendency in prices, as on the stock market. 11. Games Power derived from the value of playing cards held. on the strength of On the basis of: She was hired on the strength of her computer skills. [Middle English, from Old English strengthu.] Synonyms: strength, power, might1, energy, force These nouns denote the capacity to act or work effectively. Strength refers especially to physical, mental, or moral robustness or vigor: "enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work" (Rudyard Kipling). Power is the ability to do something and especially to produce an effect: "I do not think the United States would come to an end if we lost our power to declare an Act of Congress void" (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) Might often implies abundant or extraordinary power: "He could defend the island against the whole might of the German Air Force" (Winston S. Churchill). Energy refers especially to a latent source of power: "The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized" (Mary Wollstonecraft). Force is the application of power or strength: "the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence" (Charles Evans Hughes). Usage Note: Although the word strength is not spelled with a k, it is most often pronounced (str ngkth), with a (k) sound inserted between the (ng) and the (th). This intrusive (k) occurs for a simple reason: In making the transition from the voiced velar nasal (ng) to the voiceless dental fricative (th), speakers naturally produce the voiceless velar stop (k), which is made at the same place in the mouth as (ng) but is voiceless like (th). Other words with intrusive consonants include warmth, which may sound like it is spelled warmpth, and prince, which may sound like prints. The pronunciation (strnth), which is made with (n) before (th), arises by the phonological process of assimilation. The velar (ng) moves forward in the mouth, becoming (n) before (th), which is made at the front of the mouth. Criticized in the past as sloppy, this pronunciation is now generally regarded as a standard, although less common, variant. The similar pronunciation of length is now also considered acceptable. |
strength
Noun
1. the state or quality of being physically or mentally strong
2. the ability to withstand great force, stress, or pressure
3. something regarded as valuable or a source of power: his chief strength is rocketry
4. potency or effectiveness, such as of a drink or drug
5. power to convince: the strength of this argument
6. degree of intensity or concentration of colour, light, sound, or flavour: a medium-strength cheese
7. the total number of people in a group: at full strength, 50 000 men below strength
8. go from strength to strength to have ever-increasing success
9. on the strength of on the basis of or relying upon [Old English strengthu]
Strength a body of soldiers; a sufficient number.
Examples: strength of men, 1565; of people, 1500; of troops, 1400.
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  strength - the property of being physically or mentally strong; "fatigue sapped his strength"property - a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles" good part - a place of especial strength hardiness, lustiness, robustness, validity - the property of being strong and healthy in constitution stalwartness, stoutness - the property of being strong and resolute sturdiness - the property of something that is strongly built indomitability, invincibility - the property being difficult or impossible to defeat endurance - the power to withstand hardship or stress; "the marathon tests a runner's endurance" invulnerability - the property of being invulnerable; the property of being incapable of being hurt (physically or emotionally) weakness - the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain; "his weakness increased as he became older"; "the weakness of the span was overlooked until it collapsed" |
| 2. | strength - 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" sea power - naval strength capability, capableness - the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally; "he worked to the limits of his capability" firepower - (military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" | |
| 3. | strength - 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" brunt - main force of a blow etc; "bore the brunt of the attack" vigor, vigour, energy, zip - forceful exertion; "he plays tennis with great energy"; "he's full of zip" intensiveness, intensity - high level or degree; the property of being intense | |
| 4. |  strength - an asset of special worth or utility; "cooking is his forte"green fingers, green thumb - a special ability to make plants grow | |
| 5. | strength - 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" power, powerfulness - possession of controlling influence; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade" convincingness - the power of argument or evidence to cause belief | |
| 6. |  strength - 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"radio brightness - the strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope magnitude - the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small); "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea" threshold level - the intensity level that is just barely perceptible field intensity, field strength - the vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field candlepower, light intensity - luminous intensity measured in candelas acoustic power, sound pressure level - the physical intensity of sound half-intensity - half the maximum intensity | |
| 7. | strength - capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects; "the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks" power, powerfulness - possession of controlling influence; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade" | |
| 8. | strength - the condition of financial success; "the strength of the company's stock in recent weeks" successfulness, prosperity - the condition of prospering; having good fortune weakness - the condition of being financially weak; "the weakness of the dollar against the yen" | |
| 9. | strength - permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force; "they advertised the durability of their products" tensile strength - the strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart indestructibility - the strength to resist destruction permanence, permanency - the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration persistence, continuity - the property of a continuous and connected period of time changelessness - the property of remaining unchanged everlastingness - the property of lasting forever |
strength
Translations
strength [strɛŋθ] n → fuerza; [of girder, knot etc] → resistencia; [of chemical solution] → potencia; [of wine] → graduación f de alcohol;
strength [strɛŋθ] n → force f [of girder, knot etc]; solidité f [of chemical solution]; titre m [of wine]; degré m d'alcool;
on the strength of → en vertu de;
below strength → à effectifs réduits
strength [strɛŋθ] n (lit, fig) → Stärke f;
(of girder etc) → Stabilität f;
(of knot etc) → Festigkeit f;
(of chemical solution) → Konzentration f;
(of wine) → Schwere f;
at full strength → vollzählig;
strength [strɛŋθ] n → forza; [of girder, knot etc] → resistenza, solidità; [of chemical solution] → concentrazione f [of wine] → gradazione f alcolica;
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