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衝力 — meaning in English

chōng lì

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English meaning

  • boost noun Something that helps increase or improve a person's effort, confidence, or performance.
  • drive verb To operate and steer a motor vehicle.
  • impetus noun Something that drives or encourages an action to happen; a driving force.
  • lunge noun A sudden forward movement, such as an attack with a sword or an attempt to grab something.
  • momentum noun In physics, a measure of a moving object's motion, calculated as its mass multiplied by its velocity.

Senses

衝力 is used for these senses in English:

  • boost A push from behind or below, as to one who is endeavoring to climb.
  • drive A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
  • impetus The force or energy associated with a moving body; a stimulus.
  • lunge A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
  • momentum (physics) Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities.

boost — full definition

  1. noun Something that helps increase or improve a person's effort, confidence, or performance.
  2. verb To help increase or improve something.
  3. verb To start a vehicle with a dead battery using jumper cables (informal).

drive — full definition

  1. verb To operate and steer a motor vehicle.
  2. verb To motivate, push, or compel someone or something toward an outcome.
  3. noun A journey made in a vehicle.
  4. noun Strong motivation or determination to achieve something.
  5. noun A device used to store and retrieve computer data.

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