Force vs Hit - What's the difference?
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Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
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*: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.
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, title= (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.."
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, title= (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.
(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
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*: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.
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*: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.
(countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
* T. Gray
To stuff; to lard; to farce.
* Shakespeare
To strike.
#(lb) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
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#*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
#*1922-1927 , (Frank Harris), (My Life and Loves)
#*:He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.
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#*:BELLO: (Shouts) Good, by the rumping jumping general! That's the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Here, don't keep me waiting, damn you! (He slaps her face)
#*:BLOOM: (Whimpers) You're after hitting me. I'll tell
#*1934 , , The Slugger's Game
#*:I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.
#(lb) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
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#*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
#*:If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another?
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#*:a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.
#*1882 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne), Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance
#*:Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.
# To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
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# To attack, especially amphibiously.
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To briefly visit.
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To encounter.
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(lb) To attain, to achieve.
# To reach or achieve.
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#*2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited,
#*:And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little about hitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.
#(lb) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:And oft it hits / Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
#*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
#*:Millions miss for one that hits .
#To guess; to light upon or discover.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:Thou hast hit it.
(lb) To affect negatively.
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To make a play.
# In blackjack, to deal a card to.
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# To come up to bat.
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#(lb) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
To use; to connect to.
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To have sex with.
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To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana
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A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
* Dryden
A success, especially in the entertainment industry.
* Alexander Pope
* {{quote-news
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An attack on a location, person or people.
# In the game of , a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
(computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine
(Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
An approximately correct answer in a test set.
(baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
(colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
(dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
(dialectal) .
* 1922 , Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, Volume 130:
* 1998 , Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:
As nouns the difference between force and hit
is that force is force while hit is .force
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) force, fors, forse, from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia force)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.}}
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.}}
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 * workforceVerb
(forc)Derived terms
* enforce * forceful * forcibleSee also
* Imperial unit: foot pound * metric unit: newton * coerce: To control by force.Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- to see the falls or force of the river Kent
Etymology 3
See .Verb
(forc)- Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit.
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal:
Antonyms
* (manage to touch in the right place) missDerived terms
(Terms derived from the verb "hit") * don't let the door hit you on the way out * flood-hit (adjective ) * hit a home run * hit a nerve * hit a six * hit a snag * hit above one's weight * hit and run * hit at * hit back * hit below one's weight * hit for six * hit home * hit it an quit it * hit it big * hit it off * hitman * hit on * hit one out of the ballpark * hit one's stride * hit out * hit paydirt * hit the ball twice * hit the books * hit the bottle * hit the bricks * hit the ceiling * hit the deck * hit the dirt * hit the gas * hit the ground running * hit the hay * hit the head * hit the headlines * hit the jackpot * hit the nail on the head * hit the net * hit the pan * hit the pavement * hit the road * hit rock bottom * hit the rock * hit the rocks * hit the roof * hit the sack * hit the silk * hit the skids * hit the spot * hit up * hit upon * hit wicket * hittable * hitter * hitting * not know what hit one * pinch-hitNoun
(en noun)- So he the famed Cilician fencer praised, / And, at each hit , with wonder seems amazed.
- The hit was very slight.
- The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
- What late he called a blessing, now was wit, / And God's good providence, a lucky hit .
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- My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
- The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
- Where am I going to get my next hit ?
- a happy hit
Antonyms
* (a punch) miss * (success) flop, turkeyDerived terms
* banjo hit * base hit * cult hit * direct hit * hit counter * hit list * hit parade * hit point * hit squad * hit test * infield hit * king hit * nervous hit * no hit * one-hit wonder * pinch hit * smash hit * straight hit * take a hitEtymology 2
From (etyl) . More at (l). Note 'it.Pronoun
- But how hit was to come about didn't appear.
- Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit' slide down the hill ' hits own way.