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| Shopping | The largest selection of FORCE products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | fao'rs |
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| Rhymes | force, airforce, Bourse, and 26 more rhymes in aors... |
| Meaning | A unit that is part of some military service. |
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| Examples | "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men" |
| Synonyms | military unit, military force, military group |
| Member of | military service, armed service, service |
| Members | serviceman, military man, man, military personnel |
| Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
| Broader | unit, social unit |
| Narrower | trip wire; command; enemy; task force; army unit; naval unit; air unit; armor, armour; mujahidin, mujahedin, mujahedeen, mujahadeen, mujahadin, mujahideen, mujahadein; legion; echelon; phalanx; Republican Guard; Haganah; Israeli Defense Force, IDF; militia, reserves; home guard; commando; contingent, detail; headquarters; spearhead |
| Meaning | One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority. |
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| Examples | "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil" |
| Synonyms | power |
| Broader | causal agent, cause, causal agency |
| Narrower | juggernaut, steamroller; influence; Moloch |
| Verbs | force; force; force |
| Meaning | (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity. |
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| Examples | "force equals mass times acceleration" |
| Category | physics, physical science, natural philosophy |
| Broader | physical phenomenon |
| Narrower | aerodynamic force; affinity, chemical attraction; attraction, attractive force; repulsion, repulsive force; centrifugal force; centripetal force; cohesion; Coriolis force; drift, impetus, impulsion; Lorentz force; moment; propulsion; pull; push, thrust; reaction; stress; torsion, torque; magnetomotive force; life force, vital force, vitality, elan vital |
| Verbs | force; force; force |
| Meaning | Group of people willing to obey orders. |
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| Examples | "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens" |
| Synonyms | personnel |
| Broader | organization, organisation |
| Narrower | guerrilla force, guerilla force; military service, armed service, service; military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine; paramilitary, paramilitary force, paramilitary unit, paramilitary organization, paramilitary organisation; police, police force, constabulary, law; security force, private security force; military police, MP; work force, workforce, manpower, hands, men; patrol; military personnel, soldiery, troops; rank and file, rank; staff; line personnel; management personnel |
| Meaning | A powerful effect or influence. |
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| Examples | "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them" |
| Broader | influence |
| Narrower | pressure; duress; heartbeat; lifeblood; wheel |
| Verbs | force; force; force; force |
| Meaning | An act of aggression (as one against a person who resists). |
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| Examples | "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one" |
| Synonyms | violence |
| Broader | aggression, hostility |
| Narrower | domestic violence; road rage; riot, public violence |
| Verbs | force |
| Meaning | Physical energy or intensity. |
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| Examples | "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man" |
| Synonyms | forcefulness, strength |
| Broader | intensity, intensiveness |
| Narrower | brunt; momentum, impulse; energy, vigor, vigour, zip |
| Meaning | A group of people having the power of effective action. |
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| Examples | "he joined forces with a band of adventurers" |
| Broader | social group |
| Meaning | (of a law) having legal validity. |
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| Synonyms | effect |
| Category | law, jurisprudence |
| Broader | validity, validness |
| Meaning | 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. |
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| Examples | "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force" |
| Synonyms | force out, force-out, force play |
| Category | baseball, baseball game |
| Broader | putout |
| Meaning | To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city". |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE; Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something |
| Model | They force him to write the letter |
| Synonyms | coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure |
| Cause to | act, move |
| Broader | compel, oblige, obligate |
| Narrower | turn up the heat, turn up the pressure; drive; bludgeon; steamroller, steamroll; squeeze for; dragoon, sandbag, railroad; terrorize, terrorise; bring oneself |
| Nouns | force; force |
| Meaning | Urge or force (a person) to an action. Constrain or motivate. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
| Model | They force him to write the letter |
| Synonyms | impel |
| Broader | cause, do, make |
| Nouns | force |
| Meaning | Move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner". |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP; Somebody ----s PP |
| Synonyms | push |
| Contrary | pull, draw, force |
| Similar to | push |
| Broader | move, displace |
| See also | force out; force out |
| Narrower | nudge, poke at, prod; press, push; repel, drive, repulse, force back, push back, beat back; shove; jerk, flick; jostle, shove; nose; push out, obtrude, thrust out; push aside, push away; muscle into; push up; thrust; drive; jam; thrust, stuff, shove, squeeze; topple, tumble, tip |
| Entails | press; move |
| Entailed by | punt, pole |
| Adjectives | forcible; forcible |
| Nouns | force |
| Participle | forced |
| Meaning | Impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something on somebody; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE; Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something |
| Examples | "She forced her diet fads on him" |
| Synonyms | thrust |
| Broader | compel, oblige, obligate |
| Narrower | stick, sting |
| Nouns | force; force |
| Meaning | Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP |
| Synonyms | wedge, squeeze |
| Broader | move, displace |
| Narrower | impact; compress, compact, pack together |
| Entailed by | bulldoze |
| Meaning | Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP |
| Synonyms | drive, ram |
| Similar to | drive; drive |
| Broader | thrust |
| Narrower | toe, toenail |
| Meaning | Do forcibly. Exert force. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "Don't force it!" |
| Broader | act, move |
| See also | force out; force out; force out; force back |
| Narrower | pull |
| Nouns | force; force; force |
| Meaning | Cause to move by pulling. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | pull, draw |
| Contrary | push, force |
| Similar to | pull; pull, draw |
| Broader | move, displace |
| Narrower | twitch; pull back; adduct; abduct; stretch; pluck, plunk, pick; tug; drag; haul, hale, cart, drag; attract, pull, pull in, draw, draw in; yank, jerk; winch; pluck, tweak, pull off, pick off |
| Nouns | force |
| Meaning | Take by force. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | storm |
| Broader | penetrate, perforate |
| Nouns | force |
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