What is "powered"

Usage examples of "powered".

His voice crackled, screeched like a powered metal-cutter, as if it had been enhanced, his mouth a black hole, the painting of a scream of rage and pain.

He checked the azimuth and corrected the boat slightly as it powered gently through the swells toward Mainland China.

Nuclear powered, the sub extracted oxygen by electrolysis and desalinated its drinking water.

He, Lam, and Dobler stepped into the gig and it powered back to the ship.

He had never used a singularity shifter himself-it was an Embe device, still experimental, powered by a mini-black hole and capable of functioning as a stasis field, a teleportation device, even a power source, but fantastically expensive, its secrets zealously guarded by the Network.

The A-Bomb was a fenderless roadster powered by a Model B straight-four.

And even those helices, which must be practically open at both ends, have to be designed and powered to withstand pressures and temperatures obtaining only in the cores of suns.

Fred Hipple with improvements on the engines that powered the Meteor, he had a lively wit, and women fell all over him.

In the past few days Michel had seen a good many of the machines at Moon-base and he had no difficulty in recognizing the basic type of the flying drone: a powered hoister, many times stronger in lifting capacity than any single human muscular system could be, though certainly not speedy in comparison with other transport devices.

It powered a jammer field, which was needed to neutralize all energy-based weapons.

First I powered down some muesli, then a plate of three or four eggs, and after that I shoveled in some pasta.

Theoretically, the yell collapses the lungs-acceleration pneumothorax, the books call it-and keeps them collapsed until the surge of powered flight is over.

Someone with an inventive turn of mind had rigged a gadget, powered by a float bobbing in the water, which at irregular intervals jerked a clanging sheet of metal against the main boiler to discourage fishingbirds from perching there and smutching the reflectors with their droppings.

So she sneaked up into the central service axis and back down into the crew ring the smart way: sitting on the roof of a powered elevator car, her stiction pads locked to the metal as it swam up the tunnel, decelerating and shedding angular momentum.

But Jak had never heard of any accident involving a ferry, and despite the fact that it was enclosing a superconducting ribbon moving at rocket speeds, rather than an ordinary powered rail, the linducer grapple, visible on one of the many screens in the cabin, seemed ordinary enough.