| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| Sounds | fao'rs |
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| Rhymes | force, airforce, Bourse, and 26 more rhymes in aors at the HyperDic website... |
| 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 |
| Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
| Member of | military service, armed service, service |
| Members | serviceman, military man, man, military personnel |
| 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 |
| Broader | unit, social unit |
| 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 |
| Narrower | juggernaut, steamroller; influence; Moloch |
| Broader | causal agent, cause, causal agency |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Broader | physical phenomenon |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Broader | organization, organisation |
| Meaning | A powerful effect or influence. |
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| Examples | "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them" |
| Narrower | pressure; duress; heartbeat; lifeblood; wheels |
| Broader | influence |
| 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 |
| Narrower | domestic violence; road rage; riot, public violence |
| Broader | aggression, hostility |
| 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 |
| Narrower | brunt; momentum, impulse; energy, vigor, vigour |
| Broader | intensity, intensiveness |
| 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 | 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 |
| Narrower | turn up the heat, turn up the pressure; drive; bludgeon; steamroller, steamroll; squeeze for; dragoon, sandbag, railroad; terrorize, terrorise; bring oneself |
| Broader | compel, oblige, obligate |
| 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 |
| Entails | press; move |
| Entailed by | punt, pole |
| 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 |
| Broader | move, displace |
| Contrary | pull, draw, force |
| Similar to | push |
| Participle | forced |
| See also | force out; force out |
| Nouns | force |
| 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 |
| Narrower | stick, sting |
| Broader | compel, oblige, obligate |
| 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 |
| Entailed by | bulldoze |
| Narrower | impact; compress, compact, pack together |
| Broader | move, displace |
| 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 |
| Narrower | toe, toenail |
| Broader | thrust |
| Similar to | drive; drive |
| Meaning | Do forcibly. Exert force. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "Don't force it!" |
| Narrower | pull |
| Broader | act, move |
| See also | force out; force out; force out; force back |
| Nouns | force; force; force |
| Meaning | Cause to move along the ground by pulling. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | pull, draw |
| 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; hike up, hitch up |
| Broader | move, displace |
| Contrary | push, force |
| Similar to | pull; pull |
| Nouns | force |
| Meaning | Take by force. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | storm |
| Broader | penetrate, perforate |
| Nouns | force |