单词 | in power |
释义 | > as lemmasin power ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adverb] > in relation to squares of magnitudes in power1570 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. x. f. 229 Right lines commensurable in power are such, whose squares one and the selfe same..area..doth measure. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 17 Pythagoras sacrificed a Hecatomb, having found out, that the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle, is of equall power to the two sides, including the right angle. 1660 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements x. 194 Right lines are commensurable in power, when the same space does measure their squares. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 40 How to finde two Lines, which together shall be equal in Power to any Line given. 1702 V. Mandey tr. J. J. Hainlin Synopsis Mathematica: Astron. ii. v. 352 A Rectangled Parallelogram D O R E... The Diagonal of this Parallelogram D E is equal in power to the Sides D O and O E, or D R and R E. 1788 J. Williamson tr. Euclid Elements II. x. 83 The straight lines commensurable in length are always so in power, but..those commensurable in power are not always so in length. in power P2. in power (a) in a position of authority, in government; †(b) Scottish able, competent (to do something) (obsolete); †(c) in potentiality, in posse, as opposed to in exercise or action (obsolete); †(d) Mathematics: see sense 12b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [phrase] in powerc1325 in authoritya1475 at the top1936 up top1967 the world > action or operation > ability > able, capable, or competent [phrase] in powerc1325 of powerc1390 of force1597 to be in capacity1649 in estate1651 the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > potentiality > [adverb] in powerc1325 potentiallyc1450 dispositively1475 in posse1592 habitually1597 in potentia1600 in possibility1711 facultatively1887 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 7895 To drawe to him þe heyemen þat in poer were þo. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Ruth i. 1 In þe daies of oon juge, whan þe jugis weren beforn in power, þer is maad grett hungyr in þe erþe. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 889 The tane is in power to mak that presoun. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 68 That Intellect which is alwaies in act,..is better then that Intellect which is in power. 1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. viii. 114 The more to cross the desire and humour of those who would observe the feast of Christmas, the men then in power commanded a strict fast to be on that day kept and observed. 1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. i. 44 They are not really and in fact present to the mind, but only in power. 1792 R. Bage Man as he Is IV. cxx. 266 The flattery of domestics is but a poor substitute for the rich adulation paid to men in power. 1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 736 The moral man is nothing—the circumstantial man, or the man in power, every thing. 1888 Nation (N.Y.) 2 Aug. 81/3 It was..natural for them to support the party in power. 1955 Times 13 Aug. 7/2 The People's Party, then in power, deplored their rivals' use of the boycott weapon. 1991 Profession (Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer.) 8/1 I want to decode the perverse discourse of those in power. < as lemmas |
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