different between propel vs pow

English

Etymology

Historically (late Middle English) meant "expel, drive out". Borrowed from Latin propell?, from pro- (“forward”) and pell? (“I push, I move”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /p???p?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Verb

propel (third-person singular simple present propels, present participle propelling, simple past and past participle propelled)

1. (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or physical action, to cause to move in a certain direction; to drive forward.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V

     When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To provide an impetus for non-physical change, to make to arrive to a certain situation or result.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 265e.

     I can discern your nature and see that even without any arguments (logoi) from me it will propel you to what you say you are drawn towards,

Synonyms

• (either): drive, push

Antonyms

• (either): stay, halt, stop
• (cause to move): rest

Derived terms

• propeller

Related terms

• propulsion

Translations

Anagrams

• lopper

Danish

Alternative forms

• (rare) propeller

Etymology

From English propeller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prop?l/, [p???o?p?l?]

Noun

propel c (singular definite propellen, plural indefinite propeller)

1. propeller (mechanical device used to propel)

Inflection

See also

• propel on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?

Interjection

pow

1. The sound of a violent impact, such as a punch.
2. The sound of an explosion.

Translations

Noun

pow (plural pows)

1. The sound of a violent impact.
2. The sound of an explosion.

Translations

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

pow (plural pows)

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Alternative form of poll
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 24:

     he'd snuffle round the door till the few remaining hairs on the bald pow of Munro would fair rise on end.

2. (skiing slang) Clipping of powder (“powder snow”).

Anagrams

• WOP, Wop, wop

Cornish

Noun

pow m (plural powyow)

1. country, land
2. province, region

Scots

Etymology

Scots form of English poll.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?u/

Noun

pow (plural pows)

1. head (of a human, animal, flower etc.)

   Three times the carline grain'd and rifted, / Then frae the cod her pow she lifted. Three times the old woman groaned and belched, then from the pillow her head she lifted. (Allan Ramsay, ‘Lucky Spence's Last Advice’)