Figure vs Force - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between figure and force

is that figure is to prefigure; to foreshow while force is to allow the force of; to value; to care for.

In transitive terms the difference between figure and force

is that figure is to enter, be a part of while force is to forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).

As nouns the difference between figure and force

is that figure is a drawing or diagram conveying information while force is strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.

As verbs the difference between figure and force

is that figure is to solve a mathematical problem while force is to violate (a woman); to rape.

As a proper noun Force is

falls. used in place names.

figure
English
(wikipedia figure)
Noun
(en noun)
A drawing or diagram conveying information.

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The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.

a figure''' in bronze; a '''figure cut in marble

* Shakespeare

a coin that bears the figure of an angel

A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures .}}
The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.

He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.

* Dryden

I made some figure there.

* Blackstone

gentlemen of the best figure in the county

(obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.

* Law

that he may live in figure and indulgence

A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.

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A numeral.

A number.

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A shape.

* Francis Bacon

Flowers have all exquisite figures .

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A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.

The muslin was of a pretty figure .

A dance figure, a complex dance move^(w).

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,
A figure of speech.

* Macaulay

to represent the imagination under the figure of a wing

(logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.

(astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.

(Johnson)

(music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.

(Grove)

(music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.

Derived terms
(Terms derived from the noun) * academy figure * action figure * authority figure * big figure * dark figure * cut a figure * father figure * figure dash * figure eight * figurehead * figureless * figure loom * figure of eight * figure of merit * figure of speech * figure poem * figure skating * four-figure * hate figure * hourglass figure * lay figure * Lissajous figure * mother figure * musical figure * plane figure * public figure * significant figure * snow figure * stick figure * terminal figure * text figure * three-figure * two-figure
Related terms
* figurine * figurative * figuratively
Verb
(mainly US)
To solve a mathematical problem.

To come to understand.

I can't figure if he's telling the truth or lying.

To be reasonable.

To enter, be a part of.

(obsolete) To represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.

* Prior

If love, alas! be pain I bear, / No thought can figure , and no tongue declare.

To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.

* Shakespeare

The vaulty top of heaven / Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.

(obsolete) To indicate by numerals.

* Dryden

As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.

To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.

* Shakespeare

whose white vestments figure innocence

(obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.

* Shakespeare

In this the heaven figures some event.

(music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.

(music) To embellish.

Derived terms
* go figure * prefigure * figure out (US)
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force
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) force, fors, forse, from (etyl) .
Noun
(wikipedia force)
Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.

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* (1800-1859)

*:He was, in the full force of the words, a good man.

Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.

*(William Shakespeare), Henry VI, part II

*:which now they hold by force , and not by right

(lb) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.

A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body which is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)

Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=(Henry Petroski), volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3
, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Opening Doors , passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.}}
(lb) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.

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*(William Shakespeare), (Cymbeline)

*:Is Lucius general of the forces ?

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*:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.."

*{{quote-news, year=2004, date=April 15, work=The Scotsman
, title= Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer , passage=For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force , which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.}}
(lb) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.

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(lb) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.

(lb) Legal validity.

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(lb) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry ", or lawful compulsion.

Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "force": military, cultural, economic, gravitational, electric, magnetic, strong, weak, positive, negative, attractive, repulsive, good, evil, dark, physical, muscular, spiritual, intellectual, mental, emotional, rotational, tremendous, huge.
Derived terms
(Terms derived from "force") * air force * antiforce * brute force * centripetal force * centrifugal force * Coulomb force * Coriolis force * come into force * force field * force multiplier * force to be reckoned with * fundamental force * police force * spent force * task force * workforce
Verb
(forc)
(lb) To violate (a woman); to rape.

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*:For yf ye were suche fyfty as ye be / ye were not able to make resystence ageynst this deuyl / here lyeth a duchesse deede the whiche was the fayrest of alle the world wyf to syre Howel / duc of Bretayne / he hath murthred her in forcynge her / and has slytte her vnto the nauyl

*, II.1:

*:a young woman not farre from mee had headlong cast her selfe out of a high window, with intent to kill herselfe, only to avoid the ravishment of a rascally-base souldier that lay in her house, who offered to force her.

*, Bk.XVIII, Ch.xxi:

*:And I pray you for my sake to force yourselff there, that men may speke you worshyp.

(lb) To compel (someone or something) (to) do something.

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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

*2011 , Tim Webb & Fiona Harvey, The Guardian , 23 March:

*:Housebuilders had warned that the higher costs involved would have forced them to build fewer homes and priced many homebuyers out of the market.

(lb) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.

*, I.40:

*:Shall wee force the general law of nature, which in all living creatures under heaven is seene to tremble at paine?

(lb) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay / That scarce the victor forced the steel away.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:to force the tyrant from his seat by war

*(John Webster) (c.1580-c.1634)

*:Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion.

*2007 , (The Guardian) , 4 November:

*:In a groundbreaking move, the Pentagon is compensating servicemen seriously hurt when an American tank convoy forced them off the road.

(lb) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.

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*2009 , "All things to Althingi", (The Economist) , 23 July:

*:The second problem is the economy, the shocking state of which has forced the decision to apply to the EU.

(lb) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).

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To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.

To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.

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(lb) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.

(lb) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.

*(John Webster) (c.1580-c.1634)

*:What can the church force more?

(lb) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.

:(Shakespeare)

(lb) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:For me, I force not argument a straw.

Derived terms
* enforce * forceful * forcible
See also
* Imperial unit: foot pound * metric unit: newton * coerce: To control by force.
Etymology 2
From (etyl)
Noun
(en noun)
(countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.

* T. Gray

to see the falls or force of the river Kent

Etymology 3
See .
Verb
(forc)
To stuff; to lard; to farce.

* Shakespeare

Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit.

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