Strength

English Meaning

The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.

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. The number of people constituting a normal or ideal organization: The police force has been at half strength since the budget cuts.
7. Military capability in terms of personnel and materiel: an army of fearsome strength.
8. A source of power or force.
9. One that is regarded as the embodiment of protective or supportive power; a support or mainstay.
10. An attribute or quality of particular worth or utility; an asset.
11. Degree of intensity, force, effectiveness, or potency in terms of a particular property, as:
12. Degree of concentration, distillation, or saturation; potency.
13. Operative effectiveness or potency.
14. Intensity, as of sound or light.
15. Intensity or vehemence, as of emotion or language.
16. Effective or binding force; efficacy: the strength of an argument.
17. Firmness of or a continuous rising tendency in prices, as on the stock market.
18. Games Power derived from the value of playing cards held.
19. on the strength of On the basis of: She was hired on the strength of her computer skills.