MIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does might mean? 

• MIGHT (noun)
  The noun MIGHT has 1 sense:

1. physical strength

  Familiarity information: MIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Physical strength

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

might; mightiness; power

Hypernyms ("might" is a kind of...):

strength (the property of being physically or mentally strong)

Derivation:

mighty (having or showing great strength or force or intensity)

 Context examples 

With the power that is yours you might have risen to any height.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You might use one at home or at work, or you may need one in a hospital.

(Medical Device Safety, Food and Drug Administration)

Elizabeth, though resenting the suspicion, might yet be made observant by it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The cause might be insulin resistance.

(Metabolic Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

She said that she feared that I might come to harm.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Old Pew, as had lost his sight, and might have thought shame, spends twelve hundred pound in a year, like a lord in Parliament.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They might involve medicines, blood transfusions or a bone marrow transplant.

(Bone Marrow Diseases, NIH)

The donor might be a family member or unrelated person.

(Bone Marrow Transplantation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

So Mother Holle very soon got tired of her, and told her she might go.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The mechanisms by which GR might induce the various aspects of the metabolic syndrome are a key area of research.

(Metabolic Syndrome Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)