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a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens.
force::noun | Spocien Dictionary
a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | force-out, force out, force play |
| Type of | putout |
the shortstop got the runner at second on a force.
force::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | coerce, hale, pressure, squeeze |
| Type of | compel, obligate, oblige |
| Has types | dragoon, railroad, turn up the pressure, steamroller, steamroll, terrorise, terrorize, sandbag, drive, squeeze for, turn up the heat, bring oneself, bludgeon |
She forced him to take a job in the city.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | push |
| Type of | displace, move |
| Has types | jam, beat back, drive, flick, force back, jerk, jostle, muscle into, nose, nudge, obtrude, poke at, press, prod, push, push aside, push away, push back, push out, push up, repel, repulse, shove, squeeze, stuff, thrust, thrust out, tip, topple, tumble |
| Verb group | push |
| Derivation | forcible |
force::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | military force, military group, military unit |
| Type of | social unit, unit |
| Has types | mujahedin, air unit, armor, armour, army unit, command, commando, contingent, detail, echelon, enemy, guard, haganah, headquarters, idf, israeli defense force, legion, trip wire, task force, militia, spearhead, mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, reserves, mujahideen, mujahidin, naval unit, phalanx, republican guard |
he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men.
force::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | power |
| Type of | cause, causal agency, causal agent |
| Has types | steamroller, moloch, influence, juggernaut |
may the force be with you.
the forces of evil.
force::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | violence |
| Type of | hostility, aggression |
| Has types | road rage, riot, public violence, domestic violence |
he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one.
force::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | social group |
he joined forces with a band of adventurers.
force::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | physical phenomenon |
| Has types | impulsion, impetus, elan vital, drift, aerodynamic force, coriolis force, cohesion, chemical attraction, centripetal force, centrifugal force, attraction, attractive force, affinity, repulsive force, repulsion, reaction, push, pull, propulsion, moment, magnetomotive force, stress, lorentz force, thrust, torque, torsion, life force, vital force, vitality |
force equals mass times acceleration.
Examples of force
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Supposedly it's a time to catch your breath, to reorganize, to not force issues.
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I'm trying to be as unique as possible, to force two flavors and make them work.
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Every incumbent president is the most formidable political force in the country.
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She said the strike force recovered $4 billion last year on behalf of taxpayers.
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Mubarak, a former air force commander, resolutely vowed not to flee the country.
From the bostonherald.com
The Groton work force of 4,500 will be cut to about 3,400 in the next 18 months.
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They'll have a lifetime in the work force to repay whatever they need to borrow.
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They should be in the labor force, either working or at least looking for a job.
From the democratandchronicle.com
I ventured that the angry right is not the all-powerful force it purports to be.
From the dailyherald.com
- A powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"
- Coerce: to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration"
- Impel: urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- Physical energy or intensity; "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"
- Push: move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"
- In physics, a force is any influence that causes a free body to undergo an acceleration. Force can also be described by intuitive concepts such as a push or pull that can cause an object with mass to change its velocity (which includes to begin moving from a state of rest), i.e. ...
- 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 kmu00B2 (0.386 squ00A0mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
- In baseball, a force is a situation when a baserunner is compelled (or forced) to vacate his time-of-pitch baseu2014and thus try to advance to the next baseu2014because the batter became a runner. A runner at first base is always forced to attempt to advance to second base when the batter becomes a runner...
