Definitions for "Force"
"Force is but might," the teacher said -- "That definition's just." The boy said naught but through instead, Remembering his pounded head: "Force is not might but must!"
Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
Keywords:  violence, trump, exert, compel, trick
Capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.
Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion; as, by force of arms; to take by force.
Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
Making someone pick a certain card when they think they have a random choice. A good way to force a card is like this: 1. Put the card you want the person to pick on the bottom of the deck. 2. Flip through the cards slowly from the top to the bottom, with your thumb under the deck. 3. Have them tell you when to stop. 4. When they say stop, pull the top cards away, but with your thumb pull the bottom card with it, so it ends up on bottom of the top cards. 5. Show that card to the person. They'll think it's the card they said stop on
To appear to give a spectator a free choice but actually make them select what the magician wants.
When the audience thinks they're making a choice on their own, but really the magician is forcing them to make a certain choice. (Book 1)
Either: (1) an application of power (including threatened or imposed sanctions, which may be violent or nonviolent). As, "the force generated by the civil disobedience movement." Or: (2) The body or group applying force as defined in (1), usually used in the plural. As, "the forces at the government's disposal.
We use the term "force" to refer to any situation when one disputant is made to do something against their will through threat. In Kenneth Boulding's terms, force is used when people are told to "do something that I want, or else I will do something that you don't want." Force does not need to be violent. It can simply be a coercive statement that says that if you do not comply with my demand, I will fire you from your job, or I will stage a hunger strike, or I will organize a work slow-down nor do anything else that is likely to harm the opponent in some significant way.
Force refers to any situation in which one disputant is made to do something against his/her will through threat. In Kenneth Boulding's terms, force is used when people are told to "do something that I want, or else I will do something that you don't want". Force does not need to be violent. It can simply be a coercive statement that says, for example, "If you do not comply with my demand, I will fire you from your job, or I will stage a hunger strike, or I will organize a work slowdown" (Conflict Research Consortium, 1998).
A Forge term for control over the protagonist characters' thematically-significant decisions by anyone who is not the character's player. It is considered an awkward term by Ron Edwards because of (1) its sense of imposed mandate and strength-in-control, and (2) its parodic Star Wars connotation. Originally called "GM-oomph" (Ron Edwards), then "GM-Force" (Mike Holmes). See also Railroading. References: Illusionism: a new look and a new approach IntCon vs GM Oomph
The intuition a geocacher uses to find the cache when near the coordinates. Because GPS units are only so accurate, they become near useless the last few feet. An expereinced geocacher will look at tattletell sign of where the cache is hidden be it an un-natural pile of stick or rocks, or a likely spot to hide a cache. Taken from the "Star Wars" series of movies and books where special characters used intuition of "feel" the world around them and know things normal characters couldn't.
The intuition a geocacher uses to find the cache when near the coordinates. An experienced geocacher will look for a likely hiding spot, for a geotrail, or for obvious camouflage (e.g., UPS or UPR). The term is borrowed from the Star Wars series.
Community action programme for the development of continuing vocational training.
to secretly make an audience member perform a desired action without his or her awareness
a group of people having the power of effective action; "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"
Material--all pieces and pawns are units of force.
general term for all your pieces and pawns.
Your army. All pawns and pieces are units of force.
To make it as difficult as possible for the thrower to throw the disc in one direction (usually one side of the field) in an attempt to make (force) him/her to make a pass to the other side. See the relevant section for how and why this is done.
Guarding on only on one side of the thrower to make them throw to the other side. The direction you want them to throw is the direction of the force.
This is the direction the defense is trying to force the offensive team to throw the disc. This can be either to force the disc out to the sidelines or into the middle of the field.
Keywords:  auth, settled, merchant, post, pos
The process by which a voice-authorized transaction is key-entered to be settled electronically with a batch of transactions. Also known as a post-auth.
Function performed at a POS device that allows the merchant to enter a transaction if unable to process under the regular sale key. Also referred to as an Off-line Sale and Post Auth.
A sales transaction for which a merchant previously received a voice authorization. A Force is done so that the previous authorized transaction can be settled and the merchant can receive funds. Also known as POST AUTHORIZATION.
A term used by Nike for their heavier and tougher basketball shoes that are intended for heavy, aggressive basketball players. Charles Barkley is a prime example of a prototypical player for the Force line. Also see " Flight" and " Uptempo" for other Nike basketball shoes.
a trademark of Danner Shoe Manufacturing Co
Force is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. Clayton Wilson was a graduate student at Empire State University working as a research assistant to a scientist (Damon Walters) who had developed a prototype device for creating a protetctive force field. Wilson stole the prototype and made a battlesuit that incorporated the generator, and dubbed himself Force.
one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority; "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil"
an unseen agent, a mystery, something driving the ideas that created the Chautauqua communities, generally known as assemblies, or gatherings of both like and unlike viewpoints
Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation; the armed forces.
To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
Characterize tyrannical, oppressive policies in terms of force, such as forced housing, forced hiring, forced labor and forced busing to dramatize such injustice.
1. The ability to cause change or energy transfer. 2. The capacity to produce energy transfer.
Form of power, radiesthesia or energy, having the capability of operating on matter, on intellect, form, thought, behavior. An electric-like power source of the energy that carries communication and other phenomena between planes, i.e. life and afterlife.
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"
loosely, material. Chernev anbd Reinfeld see this as the other great defining theme of tactical play. See the model game by Kasparov in the Canon.
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"
squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"
Keywords:  farce, lard, stuff
To stuff; to lard; to farce.
a given coordinate system arising from the inertia of a parcel moving with respect to another coordinate system
a tendency to move
The amount of muscular effort required to perform a task. Generally, the greater the force, the greater the degree of risk. High force has been associated with Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders at the shoulder/neck, the low back and the forearm/wrist/hand.
impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him"
Keywords:  waterfall, cascade
A waterfall; a cascade.
Keywords:  isnt, ozzie, rip, sas, british
a rip off of the british SAS it isnt and never will be, the same goes for the ozzie SAS
Keywords:  freelist, fortran, foreign
FOREIGN* FORTRAN* FOUND* FREELIST
Essentially, forcing is accomplished when a bud (often on a cutting from a flowering shrub or tree) opens or a bulb is made to sprout out of season. Forcing will not be successful if the plant is not first allowed a period of dormancy, where it remains cold and in the dark for a time specific to the plant (usually a few months). When ready, slowly transition the bulb (or cutting) to room temperature. The growth will begin as it would in a premature spring. Keep the plant as cool as possible, especially at night, without setting it back outside.
The process of making a plant grow or flower before its natural season.
To provide with forces; to reënforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
Keywords:  torque
torque
Physical power that will cause movement.
(emf) The force that causes electrons to flow because of a difference in electrical potential (measured in volts ).
Active power applied to a spring to cause a deflection. Often erroneously called load.
FORce based Cluster Editing is a Java software heuristically solving the graph cluster editing problem on weighted edges using BLAST E-values. It further provides a training mode for heuristic parameter estimation.
a stunt in where the outside linebacker or the strong safety stunts to the outside and the defensive end goes inside
Keywords:  hong, kong, reputation, rank, module
a top rank memory module manufacturer in Hong Kong and has established GOOD REPUTATION in the world-wide market
a major blow to the USAF as it is a capability which is near impossible to replace other than by a similar aircraft type
Keywords:  fort, storm, take
take by force; "Storm the fort"
Keywords:  caesar, military, thousand, six, sent
a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"
Controlling the environment, eg heat, to produce early flowers or fruit, eg rhubarb.
Created whenever pressure works on an area. The units are pounds. (F = P x A)
Is the accumulated pressure and is expressed in pounds.
Keywords:  pornography, you'll, lot, know, you
a lot like pornography, you'll know it when you see it
a stylistic feature describing intensity of expression.
Keywords:  efficacy, validity, still, law, legal
Validity; efficacy.
(of a law) having legal validity; "the law is still in effect"
Keywords:  resized, enough, add, except, room
force_* Add an item to the container. This is the same as put except that the container is automatically resized when there is not enough room left.
group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"
a consequence (effect) of some other CONDITION
Keywords:  patch, tells, add, tool, selected
An option when using the HP Patch/iX patch management tool. Forcing a patch tells HP Patch/iX to include (add) the selected patch in the patch installation.
a business driver, internal or external to the business that requires a response
a concentrated load applied at a node in the model
Keywords:  matter, importance, weight
To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
Keywords:  heavy, taxes, pay
They were forced to pay heavy taxes.
Keywords:  care, allow, value
To allow the force of; to value; to care for.