Commanding and Strong

verb

• Be in command of.
  • usage: "The general commanded a huge army"
  • synonyms: command
• Make someone do something.
  • synonyms: command, require
• Demand as one's due.
  • usage: "This speaker commands a high fee"; "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"
  • synonyms: command
• Look down on.
  • usage: "The villa dominates the town"
  • synonyms: dominate, command, overlook, overtop
• Exercise authoritative control or power over.
  • usage: "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
  • synonyms: control, command

adjective

• Used of a height or viewpoint.
  • usage: "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom"
  • synonyms: dominating, overlooking

• (a.) Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence.
• (a.) Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.
• (a.) Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Command.

adjective

• Having strength or power greater than average or expected.
  • usage: "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man"
• Not faint or feeble.
  • usage: "a strong odor of burning rubber"
• Having or wielding force or authority.
  • usage: "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons"
  • synonyms: potent
• Having a strong physiological or chemical effect.
  • usage: "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea, "a stiff drink"
  • synonyms: potent, stiff
• Immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with.
  • usage: "an impregnable fortress"; "fortifications that made the frontier inviolable"; "a secure telephone connection"
  • synonyms: impregnable, inviolable, secure, unassailable, unattackable
• Of good quality and condition; solidly built.
  • usage: "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings"
  • synonyms: solid, substantial
• Of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection.
  • usage: "`sing' is a strong verb"
• Being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content.
  • usage: "hard liquor"
  • synonyms: hard
• Freshly made or left.
  • usage: "a warm trail"; "the scent is warm"
  • synonyms: warm
• Strong and sure.
  • usage: "a firm grasp"; "gave a strong pull on the rope"
  • synonyms: firm

• (superl.) Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.
• (superl.) Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.
• (superl.) Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.
• (superl.) Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory.
• (superl.) Having great wealth, means or resources; as, a strong house or company of merchants.
• (superl.) Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; striking or superior of the kind; powerful; forcible; cogent; as, a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example; strong language.
• (superl.) Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.
• (superl.) Vigorous; effective; forcible; powerful.
• (superl.) Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.
• (superl.) Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong.
• (superl.) Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.
• (superl.) Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.
• (superl.) Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee.
• (superl.) Having active physical power or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.
• (superl.) Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform or are irregular.
• (superl.) Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat.
• (superl.) Affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.
• (superl.) Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide.
• (superl.) Having great force, vigor, power or the like, as the mind, intellect or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment or imagination.
• (superl.) Pertaining to or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak or regular. See Weak.

• Name Meaning: Powerful
• Name Origin: English