Force vs Worm - 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
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 A contemptible or devious being.
* Bible, Psalms xxii. 6
(computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
(cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
* Moxon
# A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
# (anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
# The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
# A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
(archaic) A dragon or mythological serpent.
(obsolete) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
* Tyndale (Acts xxviii. 3, 4)
* Shakespeare
* Longfellow
An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
(math) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
(label) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
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To work one's way by artful or devious means.
*(George Herbert) (1593-1633)
*:When debates and fretting jealousy / Did worm and work within you more and more, / Your colour faded.
To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
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To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; often followed by out .
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:They find themselves wormed out of all power.
To "worm out of", to "drag out of" (often: "drag every word out of someone"), to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly). Often combined with expressions such as "It's like pulling teeth" or "It's like getting blood out of a stone".
*(Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)
*:Theywormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell.
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*:He nodded. "Mum's the word, Mrs. Bunting! It'll all be in the last editions of the evening newspapers—it can't be kep' out. There'd be too much of a row if twas!" ¶ "Are you going off to that public-house now?" she asked. ¶ "I've got a awk'ard job—to try and worm something out of the barmaid."
To fill in the contlines of a rope before parcelling and serving.
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*1841 ,
*:Ropesare generally wormed before they are served.
(label) To deworm an animal.
(label) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
*1919 , , How animals talk: and other pleasant studies of birds and beast?
*:Inch by inch I wormed along the secret passageway, flat to the ground, not once raising my head, hardly daring to pull a full breath.
(label) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:The men assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies.
(label) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
Force is a related term of worm.
As nouns the difference between force and worm
is that force is force while worm 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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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
- I am a worm , and no man.
- The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw plates, are called worms .
- There came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said, This man must needs be a murderer.
- 'Tis slander, / Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue / Outvenoms all the worms of Nile.
- When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm , / His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks.
- — Richard III ,
Verb
(en verb)Benjamin J. Totten], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=w0VJAAAAYAAJ Naval Text-Book: