strengthnoun/ˈstɹɛŋθ/

• 1

  The quality or degree of being strong.

  • It requires great strength to lift heavy objects.
  • Our castle’s strength will laugh a siege to scorn.
• 2

  The intensity of a force or power; potency.

  • He had the strength of ten men.
  • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
• 3

  The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.

  • God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
  • […] certainly there is not in the world a greater strength against temptations, then is deposited in an obedient understanding […].
• 4

  A positive attribute.

  • to play to one's strengths
  • We all have our own strengths and weaknesses.
• 5

  obsoleteAn armed force, a body of troops.

  • Thou princely leader of our English strength, Never so needful on the earth of France,
  • That done, dissever your united strengths, And part your mingled colours once again;
• 6

  obsoleteA strong place; a stronghold.

  • All like himself rebellious, by whose aid This inaccessible high strength, the seat Of Deitie supream, us dispossest, He trusted to have seis’d […]
• 7

  graph-theorymathematicssciencesThe minimum ratio of the number of edges removed from a given graph to components created, over all possible removals.

strengthverb/ˈstɹɛŋθ/

• 1

  obsoleteTo strengthen (all senses).

  • ſtrengthed with all myght / thꝛowe hys gloꝛious power / vnto all pacience / and longe ſufferynge with ioyfulnes
  • Then ſhalt thow perceave what it meaneth that the power of this wretched monſtre / muſt be ſtrengthed / by anothers power and not by his awne.