Powered vs Empower - What's the difference?
powered | empower |
(of a device) Self-powered, such as by an electric motor or an internal engine; not requiring external power, such as from a person or a horse.
* 2007 , John W. Diers and Aaron Isaacs, Twin Cities by Trolley: The Streetcar Era in Minneapolis and St. Paul , University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 0-8166-4358-X, page 145,
(power)
To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
* {{quote-book, year=1985, author=William H. Tench, title=Safety is no accident
, passage=Regulations have been made under the Civil Aviation Acts of 1949, 1980 and 1982 which empower Inspectors of Accidents to do these things.}}
To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.
* {{quote-book, year=1992, author=Nick Logan, title=The Face, page=11-130
, passage=Musically, what originally attracted me to dance was its shamanist aspects, using natural magic to change people's neurological states and to psychologically empower them.}}
As verbs the difference between powered and empower
is that powered is (power) while empower is to give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.As an adjective powered
is (of a device) self-powered, such as by an electric motor or an internal engine; not requiring external power, such as from a person or a horse.powered
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Adjective
(-)- Around the same time, TCRT experimented with removing the motors on one of its older cars, turning it into an unpowered trailer that could be towed behind a powered car.
Derived terms
* battery-poweredVerb
(head)empower
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Alternative forms
* empowre (archaic) * impower (archaic) * impowre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- It's not enough to give women and minorities equal rights on paper; they need to be empowered to be able to make use of these rights.
- John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations.