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Definition of Powder

Powder

The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.

An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder.

To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.

To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.

To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.

To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.

To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.

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Powder Quotations

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.
Steve Jobs

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
Chief Joseph

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
Wayne Gretzky

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Henry James

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell

I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder.
David Spade

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.
Art Buchwald

I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.
Leighton Meester

Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
Karl Liebknecht

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
Barney Ross

Some people think wearing powder ages them, but try it anyway. For me it mattes my makeup and blends it well.
Marcia Cross

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.
Henry Bessemer

I started doing makeup to make a living. Then I said, You're not supposed to be putting powder on other people. You're supposed to be powdering yourself.
Debi Mazar

I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.
Scott Patterson

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
Peter Stuyvesant

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.
Helena Rubinstein

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.
Henry Bessemer

A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
Chester W. Nimitz

I've always been into powder, that's what I like riding, and now you've got to go farther to get it.
Craig Kelly

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.
George Axelrod

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.
Art Blakey

I see a little better grooming. Some might even be trying a little powder.
Howell Heflin

Threats without power are like powder without ball.
Nathan Bailey

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
H. Rap Brown

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Powder Translations

powder in Afrikaans is poeier
powder in Dutch is bepoederen, poederen
powder in French is poudre
powder in German is Pulver, Puder, Puder, Pulver
powder in Italian is cipria
powder in Norwegian is pudder, pulver
powder in Spanish is polvos
powder in Swedish is krut, pulver, puder, pudra

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