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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
powerhouse
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
▪ Colonial Hong Kong blossomed into an economic powerhouse: a capitalistic colony fueled by international investment and global banking.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Atlanta was the powerhouse team of the '90s.
▪ This small company has become a powerhouse in the software market.
▪ Vocal powerhouse Dorothy Reid will perform at Thursday's gospel concert.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But they face opposition from a lobbying powerhouse of credit card companies, banks, auto companies and retail chains.
▪ So whatever level of runner you are you can't do better than get into the Mizuno powerhouse.
▪ The Cougars, eighth in the conference last year, have never been a Pac-10 powerhouse.
▪ The Redmond, Wash.-based powerhouse yesterday announced an agreement to buy Aha!
▪ There are some powerhouses, of course.
▪ Whether this is true or not, an extraordinary powerhouse of commercial and creative activity is now propelling multimedia forward.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
powerhouse

1873, "building where power is generated," from power (n.) + house (n.). Figurative sense is from 1913.

Wiktionary
powerhouse

n. Any source of power, energy or strength.

WordNet
powerhouse
  1. n. a highly energetic and indefatigable person [syn: human dynamo, ball of fire, fireball]

  2. a team considered to be the best of its class

  3. an electrical generating station [syn: power station, power plant]

Wikipedia
Powerhouse (TV series)

PowerHouse is a United States television series produced by the Educational Film Center at Northern Virginia ETV and aired on PBS for 16 episodes in 1982 (two episodes never aired). It billed itself as "a 16-part series for young people and their families," with the target audience being primarily kids, preteens, teenagers,& young adults, and it was widely praised by educational groups. The series was later rerun by Nickelodeon in the mid-1980s.

Powerhouse (instrumental)

"Powerhouse" (1937) is an instrumental musical composition by Raymond Scott, perhaps best known today as the iconic " assembly line" music in animated cartoons released by Warner Bros.

PowerHouse (programming language)

PowerHouse is a trademarked name for a byte-compiled fourth-generation programming language (or 4GL) originally produced by Quasar Corporation (later renamed Cognos Incorporated) for the Hewlett-Packard HP3000 mini-computer. It was initially composed of five components:

  • QDD, or Quasar Data Dictionary: for building a central data dictionary used by all other components
  • QDesign: a character-based screen generator
  • Quick: an interactive, character-based screen processor (running screens generated by QDesign)
  • Quiz: a report writer
  • QTP: a batch transaction processor.
Powerhouse

Powerhouse or Power House may refer to:

  • Power station, a facility for the generation of electric power
Powerhouse (comics)

Powerhouse is a name used by several different fictional characters, operating in the Marvel Comics Universe.

Powerhouse (Mustasch album)

Powerhouse is the third full-length album by Swedish heavy metal band Mustasch. It was released in 2005 and peaked at number 10 on the Swedish charts.

Powerhouse (Deep Purple album)

Powerhouse is a 1977 compilation album by Deep Purple, featuring previously unreleased live and studio tracks from the band's Mark II line-up at the height of its powers. The album achieved Gold Certification in Japan.

Powerhouse (shop)

Powerhouse was a United Kingdom electrical goods retail chain which went into administration in 2003 and finally entered receivership in August 2006. At one time it was the third largest trader in the UK electrical goods market.

Powerhouse (White Heart album)

Powerhouse is the seventh album by the Christian rock band White Heart and the first with Brian Wooten on guitars and Anthony Sallee on bass guitar, and the band's only album with Mark Nemer on drums.

Powerhouse (club)

Powerhouse is a gay friendly club and venue in Newcastle upon Tyne.

It has been in four separate locations over its history. Originally a basement club on Waterloo Street in the 1980s. In 2008, the club, now on Westmoreland Road, was leased to Pure Leisure Ltd. It is now under new management by Copenhagen 1801;

The club is noted for its four floors, which are not always open at the same time.It also has a roof terrace and has been a tour venue for runner-up stars from The X Factor and Big Brother reality television shows.

Powerhouse (The Jazz Crusaders album)

Powerhouse is a 1969 album by The Jazz Crusaders. It was their fourteenth album produced by Richard Bock for World Pacific Jazz Records. It was the first album in which Joe Sample played on the Fender Rhodes and according to Thom Jurek in his AllMusic review, would mark a turning point for the band.

Powerhouse (1997 band)

Powerhouse is a British production duo of Hamilton Dean and Julian Slatter who reached #38 in the UK with "Rhythm of the Night" in December 1997.

Usage examples of "powerhouse".

Karen Bircher, who at the age of forty-one had gone from being a powerhouse career gal to a mom at home in the space of fifteen months.

And of course the complete collapse of that economic powerhouse Hasbro-Microsoft-Starbucks under the triple assaults of plastic-eating bacteria, cheap qubit computers in a test-tube and terrorist-unleashed coffeeplant-killer viruses.

He almost felt guilty for hitting it with a powerhouse like the sasquatch behind its back.

At the touch of a switch, superheated steam, excessive blowoff from the city powerhouse, blasted down the pipe and the condemned were literally steamed alive.

At the touch of a switch, superheated steam, excessive blowoff from the city powerhouse, blasted down the pipe and the condemned were literally steamed alive.

It authorized the tank truck to suck the accumulated soot and dirt from the furnace flues of the Copley powerhouse.

They were simple enough to him, who had made a career of working with alien mechanisms, but to Gibbs they looked like a miniature powerhouse switchboard.

But lowly assistant Commonwealth liaisons did not simply ignore senior NorCoord political powerhouses.

Laboratories have become the ideological and technological powerhouses of modern society.

Karen Bircher, who at the age of forty-one had gone from being a powerhouse career gal to a mom at home in the space of fifteen months.

Not quite clairvoyantly I sensed that another search of the powerhouse was under way.

Atop the green mountain that rises behind the town of Trujillo, hidden most of the days by mist, enclosed within a cyclone fence, stood a powerhouse and an antenna belonging to Cablevision, the cable company that serviced the region, and a tin-roofed cabin of unpainted boards where lived the caretakers, Antonio Oubre and his wife Suyapa, family friends of many years' duration.

She had watched it happen many times during her nine years with the Argos Group, as that organization burgeoned from its original role as a provider of unique electronics to a worldwide deal broker and powerhouse.

For forty years, this desert world had been the quasi-fief of House Harkonnen, a political appointment granted by the Emperor, with the blessing of the commercial powerhouse CHOAM -- the Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles.

When that sort of economic powerhouse expanded into the vicinity of star systems which could scarcely keep their heads above water, the train of events leading to eventual incorporation extended itself with the inevitability of entropy.