[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 20:55:30 +0100
Tuesday, June 7, 2005, 7:24:02 PM, Phil Enns wrote:
PE> Judy Evans writes:
> "What's sloppy about my using "power" in two different ways, signalling t=
he
> difference by "qua"?"
PE> The sloppiness lies in your requiring the single word 'power' to do dou=
ble
PE> duty.
>11 entries found for power.
>pow=B7er ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pour)
>n.
>The ability or capacity to perform or act effectively.
>A specific capacity, faculty, or aptitude. Often used in the plural:
>her powers of concentration.
>Strength or force exerted or capable of being exerted; might.
>See Synonyms at strength.
>The ability or official capacity to exercise control; authority.
>A person, group, or nation having great influence or control
>over others: the western powers.
>The might of a nation, political organization, or similar group.
>Forcefulness; effectiveness: a novel of unusual power.
>Chiefly Upper Southern U.S. A large number or amount.
>See Regional Note at powerful.
>The energy or motive force by which a physical system or
>machine is operated: turbines turned by steam power; a sailing ship
> driven by wind power.
>The capacity of a system or machine to operate: a vehicle that
>runs under its own power.
>Electrical or mechanical energy, especially as used to assist
>or replace human energy.
>Electricity supplied to a home, building, or community:
>a storm that cut off power to the whole region.
>Physics. The rate at which work is done, expressed as the
>amount of work per unit time and commonly measured in units
>such as the watt and horsepower.
>Electricity.
>The product of applied potential difference and current
>in a direct-current circuit.
>The product of the effective values of the voltage and
>current with the cosine of the phase angle between current
>and voltage in an alternating-current circuit.
>Mathematics.
>See exponent.
>The number of elements in a finite set.
>Statistics. The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis
>where it is false.
>A measure of the magnification of an optical instrument,
>such as a microscope or telescope.
>powers Christianity. The sixth of the nine orders of angels in medieval an=
gelology.
>Archaic. An armed force.
>adj.
>Of or relating to political, social, or economic control:
>a power struggle; a power base.
>Operated with mechanical or electrical energy in place of bodily
>exertion: a power tool; power car windows.
>Of or relating to the generation or transmission of electricity:
>power companies; power lines.
>Informal. Of or relating to influential business or professional
>practices: a pinstriped suit with a power tie; met with
>high-level executives at a power breakfast.
>tr.v. pow=B7ered, pow=B7er=B7ing, pow=B7ers
>To supply with power, especially mechanical power.
>Idiom:
>powers that be
>Those who hold effective power in a system or situation: a plan
>vetoed by the powers that be.
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>[Middle English, from Old French pooir, to be able, power, from Vulgar
>Latin *potre, to be able, from potis, able, powerful.
>See poti- in Indo-European Roots.
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