The powers that be

Definition

power /'paƱǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [U] တတ္ႏိုင္စြမ္း။ အင္အား။ It is not in/ within any power (ie I am unable or not in a position) to help you. ❍ I will do everything in my power to help you. ၂။ (က) [U] (also powers [pl]) (တစ္စံုတစ္ရာေသာ) ကိုယ္စြမ္း၊ ဉာဏ္စြမ္း။ …ႏိုင္ျခင္း။ …ႏိုင္စြမ္း။ ခြန္အား။ ဗလ။ He has lost the power of speech. ❍ The drug affects one's powers of concentration ❍ He had to use all his powers of persuasion. (ခ) powers [pl] အစြမ္းသတၱိ။ စြမ္းရည္။ ခြန္အားဗလ။ a woman of impressive intellectual powers ❍ be at the height of one's powers (ie when one is strongest in mind and body). ၃။ [U] အစြမ္း။ စြမ္းရည္။ The ship was helpless against the power of the storm. ❍ The power of her performance affected the whole audience. ❍ They were impressed by the power of her arguments. ❍ STRENGTH See also FIRE-POWER ၄။ [U] (က) အာဏာစက္။ အာဏာ။ ဩဇာ။ တန္ခိုး။ the power of the law ❍ have sb in one's power (ie be able to do what one wishes with sb) ❍ have power over sb/sb's future ❍ fall into sb's power ❍ He made the mistake of underestimating the power of the press. (ခ) ႏိုင္ငံေရးအာဏာ။ take/ seize/ lose power ❍ The government came to/ into power at the last election. ❍ The present regime has been in power for two years. ၅။ [C esp pl ] အခြင့္အာဏာ။ military/ legal/ economic power(s) ❍ The powers of the police must be clearly defined. ❍ The President has exceeded his powers (ie has done more than he or she is allowed or has the right to do). ၆။ [C] အင္အားႀကီးေသာ၊ ဩဇာတိကၠမရိွေသာ ပုဂၢိဳလ္၊ ႏိုင္ငံ စသည္။ တန္ခိုးထြားသူ။ အင္အားႀကီး ႏိုင္ငံ။ world powers (ie countries with the most influence in international affairs) ❍ an allied/ enemy power. ၇။ [U] (က) စြမ္းအင္။ wind/ nuclear/ hydro-electric power. (ခ) လွ်ပ္စစ္ ဓာတ္အား။ They've switched off the power. (ဂ) လွ်ပ္စစ္ (သို႔) ယႏၲရား စြမ္းအား ပံ့ပိုးေပးထားေသာစက္ကိရိယာ။ power brakes/ steering ❍ power tools. (ဃ) (အင္ဂ်င္) စြမ္းအား။ စြမ္းပကား။ a car's power of acceleration ❍ boost/ increase/ reduce engine power. ၈။ [C esp sing ] ( mathematics ) ထပ္ကိန္း။ 4 to the power of 3 is 4 3 (ie 4 x 4 x 4 = 64). ၉။ [U] မွန္ဘီလူးအား။ the power of a microscope/ telescope. ၁၀။ [C] တန္ခိုးဣဒၶိပါဒ္။ the powers of darkness (ie the forces of evil or of the Devil) ❍ She believed in the existence of a benevolent power. v ၁။ … အားျဖင့္ လည္သည္၊ သြားသည္၊ ေမာင္းႏွင္သည္။ aircraft powered by jet engines ❍ toys powered by batteries. ၂။ အင္ႏွင့္အားႏွင့္ တြန္းထိုးသြားသည္။ He powered (his way) into the lead. ❏ do sb a power of good [ IDM ] ( infml ) … အတြက္ အားေဆးတစ္ခြက္။ A holiday would do us all a power of good. ❏ more power to sb's elbow [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ေအာင္ျမင္ပါေစ။ She is campaigning for an improved bus service— more power to her elbow! ❏ power-base n ႏိုင္ငံေရးအာဏာ အေျခစိုက္စခန္း။ His power-base is in the south of the country. ❏ the (real) power behind the throne [ IDM ] ေနာက္ကြယ္မွ ျခယ္လွယ္သူ။ ႀကိဳးကိုင္သူ။ The President's wife was suspected of being the real power behind the throne. ❏ power-broker n ႏိုင္ငံေရးအာဏာကို ခြဲတမ္းခ်ရာ၌ ပြဲစားလုပ္သူ။ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ပြဲမင္း။ ❏ power cut n လွ်ပ္စစ္ဓာတ္အား ျပတ္ေတာက္မႈ။ The violent storms caused several power cuts. ❏ powered adj … စြမ္းအင္သံုး။ solar-powered heating. See also HIGH-POWERED ❏ power line n ဓာတ္အားလိုင္း။ ❏ power of attorney n [U,C] ( law ) ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ လႊဲစာ။ ❏ power point n ( Brit ) ပလတ္ေပါက္။ ❏ power-sharing n [U] (ႏိုင္ငံေရးအသင္းအဖြဲ႕မ်ား) အာဏာ ခြဲေဝယူမႈ။ ❏ power station ( US power plant ) n ဓာတ္အားေပးစက္႐ံု။ ဓာတ္စက္႐ံု။ a coal-fired power station ❍ a nuclear power station. ❏ the powers that be [ IDM ]( often ironic ) အာဏာပိုင္ မ်ား။ The powers that be are still trying to decide what should be done.

Examples

1. Power within the company is divided between the directors and the shareholders.
2. The power of television advertising
3. [power over] : Her parents still have a lot of power over her.
4. [power struggle] : A power struggle within the party
5. Purchasing/bargaining/earning power
6. [beyond your power] : I had always believed such an achievement was beyond my power.
7. [do everything in/within your power] : Willis did everything within his power for his client.
8. He has amazing powers of concentration.
9. [the power to do something] : Some people believed Rashad had the power to perform miracles.
10. The plan aims to strengthen governmental powers.
11. [be in power] : The ruling Social Democratic party has been in power for ten years.
12. [seize power] : Later that year
13. the generals seized power in a bloody coup.
14. A high court has power to overturn the lower court’s decision.
15. [exercise your power] : Under the dictatorship
16. the army was allowed to exercise vast powers.
17. [abuse your power] : Local officials were found to be abusing their power.
18. China has emerged as a major economic power in Asia.
19. Solar power
20. The boy was thrown backwards against a tree by the power of the blast.
21. The power of the crocodile’s jaws
22. I’m going to need a computer with more power.