Force vs Motion - 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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* (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.
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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
(uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
(countable) A change of position with respect to time.
* Dr. H. More
(physics) A change from one place to another.
* 1839 , Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95
(countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
(philosophy) from ; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 53:
Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
* South
(legal) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
(music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion'' is that by single degrees of the scale. ''Contrary motion'' is when parts move in opposite directions. ''Disjunct motion'' is motion by skips. ''Oblique motion'' is when one part is stationary while another moves. ''Similar'' or ''direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
* Grove
(obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To gesture indicating a desired movement.
(proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
To make a proposal; to offer plans.
As nouns the difference between force and motion
is that force is force while motion is (uncountable) a state of progression from one place to another.As a verb motion is
to gesture indicating a desired movement.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
(wikipedia motion)Noun
- This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion .
- Secondly, When a body is once in motion' it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its ' motion .
- The motion to amend is now open for discussion.
- Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion .
- when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had bin else a meer artificiall Adam'', such an ''Adam as he is in the motions .
- "I say, it is no uneven jot, to pass from the more faint and obscure examples of Spermatical'' life to the more considerable effects of ''general Motion'' in ''Minerals'', ''Metalls'', and sundry ''Meteors'', whose easie and rude shapes may have no need of any Principle of Life, or ''Spermatical form'' distinct from the ''Rest'' or ''Motion'' of the particles of the ''Matter ."
- Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God.
- The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint.
- What motion' s this? the model of Nineveh?
Synonyms
* (state of progression from one place to another) movement * (change from one place to another) move, movementAntonyms
* restDerived terms
* Brownian motion * motionless * perpetual motion * perpetual motion machineVerb
(en verb)- He motioned for me to come closer.
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