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horse·pow·er

(hôrs′pou′ər)

n. pl. horse·power

1. Abbr. hp A unit of power in the US Customary System, equal to 745.7 watts or 33,000 foot-pounds per minute.

2. The power exerted by a horse in pulling.

3. Informal Effective strength: political horsepower; computer horsepower.

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horsepower

(ˈhɔːsˌpaʊə)

1. (Units) an fps unit of power, equal to 550 foot-pounds per second (equivalent to 745.7 watts)

2. (Units) a US standard unit of power, equal to 746 watts

Abbreviation: HP or h.p

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horse•pow•er

(ˈhɔrsˌpaʊ ər)

n.

1. a foot-pound-second unit of power, equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second, or 745.7 watts.

2. Informal. the capacity to achieve or produce; strength or talent.

[1800–10]

horse·pow·er

(hôrs′pou′ər)

A unit used to measure the power of engines and motors. One unit of horsepower is equal to the power needed to lift 550 pounds one foot in one second. This unit has been widely replaced by the watt in scientific usage.

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horsepower

(hp) A unit of work representing the power needed to raise 550 lb by 1 ft in 1 s.

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horsepower - a unit of power equal to 746 watts

H.P., HP

power unit - a measure of electric power

watt, W - a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm

Translations

koňská síla

hestekraft

Pferdestärke

ιπποδύναμη

hobujõud

hevosvoimavääntövoima

cheval-vapeur

LElóerõlóerő

hestafl

cavallo vapore cavallo-vapore

macht

hestekrefter

лошадиная сила

konská sila

beygir gücü

马力

horsepower

[ˈhɔːsˌpauəʳ] N → caballo m de vapor
a 20 horsepower engine → un motor de 20 caballos

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horsepower

[ˈhɔː^rspaʊə^r] n

(= power) → puissance f (en chevaux)

(= unit) → cheval-vapeur m, cheval m
a 300-horsepower engine → un moteur de 300 chevauxhorse race n → course f de chevauxhorse racing horse-racing, horseracing [ˈhɔː^rsreɪsɪŋ] n → courses fpl de chevaux

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horsepower

[ˈhɔːsˌpauəʳ] n → cavallo (vapore)

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

horse

(hoːs) noun

1. a large four-footed animal which is used to pull carts etc or to carry people etc.

2. a piece of apparatus used for jumping, vaulting etc in a gymnasium.

ˈhorse-box noun

an enclosed vehicle etc used for carrying horses.

ˈhorsefly noun

a large fly that bites horses etc.

ˈhorsehair noun, adjective

(of) the hair from a horse's mane or tail. The mattress is stuffed with horsehair; a horsehair mattress.

ˈhorseman – feminine ˈhorsewoman – noun

a rider, especially a skilled one. She is a very competent horsewoman.

ˈhorsemanship noun

ˈhorseplay noun

rough and noisy behaviour or play.

ˈhorsepower (usually abbreviated to h.p.when written) noun

a standard unit used to measure the power of engines, cars etc.

horseshoe (ˈhoːʃʃuː) noun

1. a curved iron shoe for a horse.

2. something in the shape of a horseshoe. The bride was presented with a lucky silver horseshoe.

on horseback

riding on a horse. The soldiers rode through the town on horseback.

(straight) from the horse's mouth

from a well-informed and reliable source. I got that story straight from the horse's mouth.

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Time, with his innumerable horse-power, worked away, not minding what anybody said, and presently turned out young Thomas a foot taller than when his father had last taken particular notice of him.

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He took us down in a car his uncle has just given him--a sixty horse-power Panhard.

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The Susquehanna, a corvette of 500 horse-power, of the United States navy, was occupied in taking soundings in the Pacific Ocean about 200 miles off the American coast, following that long peninsula which stretches down the coast of Mexico.

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"Four thousand horse-power and forty-five miles an hour, though you wouldn't think it," he concluded proudly.

"Four thousand horse-power and forty-five miles an hour," the engineer repeated, grinning good-naturedly.

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A thousand miles beyond the last mission station toiled her engineers and spies, clad as coolies, under the guise of itinerant merchants or proselytizing Buddhist priests, noting down the horse-power of every waterfall, the likely sites for factories, the heights of mountains and passes, the strategic advantages and weaknesses, the wealth of the farming valleys, the number of bullocks in a district or the number of labourers that could be collected by forced levies.

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Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

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SIR - To maintain our grid within the necessary limits for a highly technically advanced nation, the total torque driving all its generators must be continually modulated to balance every change in our demand (an extra five horse-power every time we switch on a kettle or five million horse-power if one million of us decide to make a cup of tea around the same time) and that power has to be instantly available.

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Naveed Asmat said that the topper farmer of the province would be offered 85 Horse-Power Tractor, similarly the second and third farmers would be given 65 Horse-Power and 55 Horse Power tractors, respectively.

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VW will also show off its Golf R, a revved-up 300 horse-power version of its perennial Golf.