Force vs Woman - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between force and woman

is that force is to forcibly open (a door, lock etc.) while woman is to furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

As a proper noun Force

is falls. used in place names.

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

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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.

*, 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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woman
English
(wikipedia woman)
Alternative forms
* womon, womyn, wymyn * wimmen, wimmen
Noun
(women)
An adult female human.

* Bible, (w) 2:22:

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman .

* (John Ledyard) (1751-1789)

I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men

* 1887 , Helen Campbell, Prisoners of poverty: their trades and their lives , p.120:

But this woman' is a nice German ' woman that fell on the ice and sprained her ankle last winter, and we saw to her well as we could till she got better.

(lb) All females collectively; womankind.

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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

* 1997 , Bob Grant, Let's Be Heard , p.42:

For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?

* 2011 , Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In , p.109:

Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.

A wife (or sometimes a or girlfriend).

* 1914 , , Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays , chapter 7: "Of Being and Not-Being":

And then, when he lies with his woman , the man may concurrently be with God, and so get increase of his soul.

A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing.

* 2004 , Hyveth Williams, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount , p.70:

Perhaps my problem is that I am a cat woman . I can't imagine any finicky feline (and they all are that at one time or another) slobbering over anyone, even a beloved owner, the way a dog does.

A female attendant or servant.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

By her woman I sent your message.

Synonyms
* see * female * lady
Antonyms
* (age ): girl * (gender ): man
Derived terms
* cleaning woman * firewoman * gentlewoman * kept woman * little woman * medicine woman * old woman * other woman * policewoman * womanish * womanly * womanhood * woman suffrage * woman's work * womenfolk * womenhood * women’s lib

Verb
(en verb)
To staff with female labor.

* 1956 , Rex Stout, Three Witnesses , The Viking Press, page 54

Apparently the Sixty-ninth Street office of Bagby Answers, Inc., was being womaned for the day from other offices.

* 1990 , Stephen King, The stand: the complete & uncut edition

Gus Dinsmore, the public beach parking lot attendent, said he guessed that so many cars must be just stopped dead along the road that even those manned (or womaned ) by able drivers would be unable to move.

* 2010 , Julia Glass, The Widower's Tale , page 77

The information desk is now manned (womaned ) by someone whose main job is to help you reserve time slots for the computers or guide you through the arduous process of “logging on.”

To make effeminate or womanish.

* 1598 , , III. ii. 50:

I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief / That the first face of neither on the start / Can woman me unto't.

To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

* 1603 , , III. iv. 191:

And think it no addition, nor my wish, / To have him see me woman'd .

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