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force
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[ verb ] to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"
Examples "He squeezed her for information" Used in print (The Atlanta Constitution...)In the Blue_Ridge meeting , the audience was warned that entering a candidate for governor would force it to take petitions out into voting_precincts to obtain the signatures of registered voters . (The Dallas Morning News,...)The bill , which Daniel said he drafted personally , would force banks , insurance_firms , pipeline_companies and other corporations to report such property to the state_treasurer . Dewey_Lawrence , a Tyler lawyer representing the Texas_Bankers_Association , sounded the opposition keynote when he said it would force banks to violate their contractual obligations with depositors and undermine the confidence of bank customers . (Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)Indeed we are forced to go much farther . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)Instead , he whirled and ran to his house for a gun forcing them to kill him , Cook reported . |
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[ noun ] a powerful effect or influence
Examples : "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them" Used in print (The New York Times,...)Arnold 's iron shot from the tee burrowed into the bunker guarding the green , an embankment that had become soft and spongy from the rains , thereby bringing local rules into force . (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Its folklore and legend , usually disguised as history , are allowed to account_for group_actions , to provide a focal_point for group loyalty , and to become a cohesive force for national identification . (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)Most_of these , with horrible exceptions , were conceived as is a ship , not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind , nor to deny its force , but as a means to survive and enjoy it . (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)The great ultimate ends of religion have served as magnificent beacon_lights that lured people toward them with an almost irresistible force , mobilizing energies and inducing sacrifices ; for_example , the Crusades , mission efforts , just wars . (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)These are the centuries in which the inhabitants of the Aegean world settled firmly into their minds and into their institutions the foundations of the Hellenic outlook , independent of outside forces . |
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[ noun ] the physical influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
Examples "force equals mass times acceleration" Used in print (Mr. America, 4:6...)( Note how strongly the upper lats and serratus are worked in this fine exercise because of the pin_point concentration of force which the dumbbell variation affords ) . (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)This and other fears of the solar_system have disappeared gradually , first , with the Ptolemaic_system and its built-in concept of periodicity and_then , more firmly , with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestrial and celestial motions . (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)By the use of various weights , data for a force rate of shear graph can be obtained . The concept of the strain energy as a Gibbs function difference * * f and exerting a force normal to the shearing face is compatible with the information obtained from optical birefringence studies of fluids undergoing shear . From this and the force of deformation it should be possible to calculate the elastic energy of deformation which should be equal to the * * f calculated from the pressure normal to the shearing face . |
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[ noun ] physical energy or intensity
Synonyms Examples : "he hit with all the force he could muster" "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale" "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)The situation in which we find ourselves is brought_out with dramatic force in Arthur_Miller 's play The_Crucible , which deals with the Salem witch trials . The concept of unity , in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force , in which good and evil are relative , ever-changing , and always joined to the same phenomenon - such a concept is still reserved to the physical_sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas . (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)Piepsam tries to stop him by force , receives a push in the chest from `` Life '' , and is left standing in impotent and growing rage , while a crowd begins to gather . (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)The force of the authors ' analysis ( if indeed it has any force ) can be felt by the reader , I believe , only after three questions have been successfully answered . The force of the authors ' analysis ( if indeed it has any force ) can be felt by the reader , I believe , only after three questions have been successfully answered . |
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[ verb ] urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
Synonyms Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)`` We must solve the problems which have forced these people to depend_upon ADC for subsistence '' , Martin said . (The New York Times,...)An injury forced Skorich to quit after the 1948 season . The Continental_League never got_off_the_ground , but after two years it forced the existing majors to expand . (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)This seems to have been the conclusion to which Origen was forced . (Mr. America, 4:6...)As you see , the professor has designed a piece of apparatus that forces the bodybuilder to use a wide grip . Related terms |
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[ noun ] group of people willing to obey orders
Synonyms Examples "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens" Used in print (Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)As the historic processes of modernization gradually gain momentum , their cohesion will be threatened by divisive forces , the gaps between rulers and subjects , town and country , will widen ; new aspirants for power will emerge whose ambitions far exceed their competence ; old rulers may lose their nerve and their sense_of_direction . (Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)The Federal forces had taken Parkersburg and Grafton from the Rebels and were moving to take all the mountains . It had been a big battle , and the Confederate forces had won . |
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[ verb ] move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"
Synonyms Used in print (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)Somehow Dr._Charles_Leale was forced through the mob and squeezed_out into the dingy corridor . (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)Seizing the bridle , he tugged with all his might and forced Katie to her knees . (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)The third crawling man forced himself erect . |
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[ noun ] (military) a unit that is part of some military service
Synonyms Examples "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men" Used in print (Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)Though he knew no more about military science and tactics than any other desk_officer , he managed to get transferred to the combat forces . The enemy had filtered across the river during the night and a full force of 1000 men , armed with Russian machine_guns , attacked the position held by Chandler 's men . Another force flanked the company and took_up a position on a hill to the rear . (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)The Pathet_Lao forces held two northern provinces and openly took the offensive in three more . (87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)Three requirements go_with a blockade : It must be proclaimed ; the blockading force must be powerful enough to enforce it ; and it must be enforced without discrimination . |
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[ noun ] an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
Synonyms Examples "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one" Used in print (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)His problem then became one of restraining the American fighters who wanted to clean_out the Vermejo by force immediately . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)You have unwittingly set_in_motion forces so malign , so vindictive , that it would be downright inhumane of me not to warn you about them . Related terms |
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[ verb ] squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
Examples "I squeezed myself into the corner" Used in print (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)The word `` church '' which turned_up over_and_over_again among Jubal 's words gave him knotty difficulty ; there was no Martian concept to match it - unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing waiting & & & then forced the concept back into English in_that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal , by Mahmoud , by Digby . |
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[ verb ] force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
Examples "She rammed her mind into focus" "He drives me mad" Used in print (William Gomberg, "Unions and the Anti-Trust Laws"...)Naturally , enterprises of the size of General_Electric are in a position to structure their prices in_such_a_way that the relatively small competitors can be forced to the wall in a very short_time . |
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[ noun ] one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
Synonyms Examples : "the mysterious presence of an evil power" "may the force be with you" "the forces of evil" Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)Meanwhile , three great terrible forces were coagulating and crystallizing . Related terms |
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[ verb ] cause to move along the ground by pulling
Examples "draw a wagon" "pull a sled" Used in print (Richard Sanders Allen, "When Fogg Flew the Mail"...)As_a_matter_of_fact , Fogg and his plane did n't get beyond Pennsylvania in the race - an engine oil leak forced him down - but the flying service and school he started subsequently were first_steps in paying_off his wry-faced backers . |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 7982
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[ noun ] a group of people having the power of effective action
Examples "he joined forces with a band of adventurers" Related terms |
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