Coerce vs Compulsory - What's the difference?
coerce | compulsory |
To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will.
(computing) to force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
Required; obligatory; mandatory.
* 1827 , A. D. Jr., Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , A. and C. Black, page 212:
* 1996 , (Ugo Pagano), Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise , page 73:
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
Something that is compulsory or required.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 22, author=The Associated Press, title=French Victory in Ice Dance, work=New York Times
, passage=Delobel and Schoenfelder failed to win the free dance, but they had built a big lead in the compulsories and the original dance. }}
As a verb coerce
is to restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.As an adjective compulsory is
required; obligatory; mandatory.As a noun compulsory is
something that is compulsory or required.coerce
English
Verb
(coerc)Synonyms
* compel * bully * dragoonDerived terms
* coercion * coercer * coercee * coercibleExternal links
* * English transitive verbs ----compulsory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- They are entirely private concerns, established by individual teachers, and attendance upon them is no more compulsory than attendance on our dispensaries.
- Some might agree that membership in the firm is perhaps more compulsory than membership in a municipality, but balk at applying the analogy to the nation.
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
Synonyms
* mandatoryAntonyms
* (required) optionalNoun
(compulsories)citation