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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 |