horsepower
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Is horsepower a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (literally, uncountable) Power derived from the motion of a horse.Examples: "Shillibeer's bus came in 1829 drawn by three horses. Later two horses were found sufficient to pull these closed wagonettes, which eventually had outside seats, and later on the substitution of a motor for horsepower."; "The Sun Inn is an attractive black-and-white building, and has an old mounting block outside as a reminder of the days when horsepower meant four legs and a saddle."; "The wheel was to have been turned by horsepower, but it was adapted to be driven by a mill-wheel on the river Derwent […]"literallyuncountable
2. (figurative, uncountable) Strength, performance capability, specs, or similar.Examples: "political horsepower"; "My patron who sent this to me to do a whole video on, you know, Convergence or whatever, being able to use this as a desktop, uh, replacement, or at least a desktop type thing, it’s impossible for me, I can’t do it, this device just doesn’t have that type of horsepower even to run itself, let alone actually run desktop Linux, it just can’t do it, I haven’t figured out how to do it."figurativelyuncountable
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