Functioning and Power

noun

• Process or manner of functioning or operating.
  • usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
  • synonyms: operation, performance

verb

• Perform as expected when applied.
  • usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
  • synonyms: function, work, operate, go, run
• Serve a purpose, role, or function.
  • usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
  • synonyms: serve, function
• Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
  • usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
  • synonyms: officiate, function

adjective

• Performing or able to perform its regular function.
  • usage: "a functioning flashlight"

noun

• Possession of controlling influence.
  • usage: "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade"
  • synonyms: powerfulness
• Physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second. ()
• Possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done.
  • usage: "danger heightened his powers of discrimination"
  • synonyms: ability
• Of a government or government official. ( holding an office means being in power)
  • usage: "being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"; "during his first year in office"; "during his first year in power"; "the power of the president"
  • synonyms: office
• One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority.
  • usage: "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil"
  • synonyms: force
• A mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself.
  • synonyms: exponent, index
• Physical strength.
  • synonyms: might, mightiness
• A state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world.
  • synonyms: world power, major power, great power, superpower
• A very wealthy or powerful businessman.
  • usage: "an oil baron"
  • synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, top executive, tycoon

verb

• Supply the force or power for the functioning of.
  • usage: "The gasoline powers the engines"

• (n.) Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power.
• (n.) The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine or an animal, working continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.
• (n.) Same as Poor, the fish.
• (n.) The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity.
• (n.) Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end.
• (n.) The degree to which a lens, mirror or any optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope, the number of times it multiplies or augments, the apparent diameter of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it multiplies the apparent surface.
• (n.) Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm.
• (n.) A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.
• (n.) The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number.
• (n.) A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.
• (n.) Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.
• (n.) The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.
• (n.) Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.
• (n.) A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things.
• (n.) Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc.
• (n.) An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment.
• (n.) A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.