Coerce vs Prod - What's the difference?
coerce | prod |
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.
To poke, to push, to touch.
To encourage, to prompt.
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A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
A poke.
A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
As verbs the difference between coerce and prod
is that coerce is to restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb while prod is to poke, to push, to touch.As a noun prod is
a device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.coerce
English
Verb
(coerc)Synonyms
* compel * bully * dragoonDerived terms
* coercion * coercer * coercee * coercibleExternal links
* * English transitive verbs ----prod
English
(wikipedia prod)Verb
(prodd)citation, passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}
Noun
(en noun)- "It's your turn," she reminded me, giving me a prod on the shoulder.
- (Fairholt)