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Powerhouse   /pˈaʊərhˌaʊs/   Listen
Powerhouse

noun
1.
A highly energetic and indefatigable person.  Synonyms: ball of fire, fireball, human dynamo.
2.
A team considered to be the best of its class.
3.
An electrical generating station.  Synonyms: power plant, power station.





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"Powerhouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... {FN34-5} Whoever realizes himself as a son of God, even as Babaji has done, can reach any goal by the infinite powers hidden within him. A common stone locks within itself the secret of stupendous atomic energy; {FN34-6} even so, a mortal is yet a powerhouse ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... Grady's pseudoyoga might have ruined them for good. But give them around a year to settle out and they'll be all right. Then they'll get the call. It's been worth the trouble. Jones is good medium grade—and that Greenfield! She'll be a powerhouse before she's half developed. Easily the most promising prospect I've come ...
— Ham Sandwich • James H. Schmitz
... there was more than the eye could see. He was picturing a great powerhouse, steel derricks, capped pipes that led off to whirring turbines, generators, strings of cables stretching out on steel supports into the distance, a wireless transmitter—and all of this the result of his own vision, of the stream he would bring ...
— Two Thousand Miles Below • Charles Willard Diffin


Words linked to "Powerhouse" :   grid, wind farm, self-starter, power grid, human dynamo, bus, power system, squad, actor, turbogenerator, wind energy facility, doer, station, busbar, team, worker, wind park


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