God vs Force - What's the difference?
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A deity.
# A supernatural, typically immortal being with superior powers.
# A male deity.
#* 2002 , Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby :
# A supreme being; God.
An idol.
# A representation of a deity, especially a statue or statuette.
# Something or someone particularly revered, worshipped, idealized, admired and/or followed.
#* Bible, Phil. iii. 19
(metaphor) A person in a high position of authority; a powerful ruler or tyrant.
An exceedingly handsome man.
* Wilfred Owen, Disabled (poem)
(Internet) The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.
* 1996 , Andy Eddy, Internet after hours
* 2003 , David Lojek, Emote to the Max (page 11)
* 1530 , , An aun?were vnto Syr Thomas Mores Dialogue'' in ''The whole workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy Martyrs, and principall teachers of this Churche of England, collected and compiled in one Tome togither, beyng before ?cattered, & now in Print here exhibited to the Church (1573),
* 1900 , , "The Happy Man" in The Wild Knight and Other Poems :
To idolize.
* {{quote-book, 1608, (William Shakespeare), , section=Act V Scene III,
, passage=CORIOLANUS: This last old man, / Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome, / Loved me above the measure of a father; / Nay, godded me, indeed.}}
* a . 1866 , (Edward Bulwer Lytton), "Death and Sisyphus".
* 2001 , Conrad C. Fink, Sportswriting: The Lively Game , page 78
to deify
* 1595 , (Edmund Spenser), Colin Clouts Come Home Againe .
* 1951 , (Eric Voegelin), Dante Germino ed., The New Science of Politics: An Introduction (1987), page 125
* 1956 , , Fritz Eichenberg, , page 241
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
*, 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.
(countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
* T. Gray
To stuff; to lard; to farce.
* Shakespeare
As a verb god
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English
Noun
(wikipedia god) (en noun)- When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
- The most frequently used name for the Islamic god is Allah.
- whose god is their belly
- Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods .
- Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts.
- The gods usually have several wizards, or "immortals," to assist them in building the MUD.
- The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods .
Usage notes
The word god is often applied both to males and to females. The word was originally neuter in Proto-Germanic; monotheistic – notably Judeo-Christian – usage completely shifted the gender to masculine, necessitating the development of a feminine form, goddess.Synonyms
* (supernatural being with superior powers) deity, See alsoDerived terms
(terms derived from "god") * demigod * God * god-awful * god-child, godchild * goddam, goddamn * goddaughter * Goddess * goddess * godded * godding * godfather * god-fearing * god forbid * god-forsaken, godforsaken * God-given * godhead * godhood * god-king, god king * godless * godlike * godliness * godling * godly * godmother * God of the gaps * godparent * godsend * godship * godson * Godspeed * godward * household god * ungodlyProper noun
(en-proper-noun)page 271/2:
- Golgotha's ghastly trinity—
- Three persons and one god .
Verb
(godd)- To men the first necessity is gods; / And if the gods were not, / " Man would invent them, tho' they godded stones.
- "Godded him up" ... It's the fear of discerning journalists: Does coverage of athletic stars, on field and off, approach beatification of the living?
- Then got he bow and fhafts of gold and lead, / In which fo fell and puiflant he grew, / That Jove himfelfe his powre began to dread, / And, taking up to heaven, him godded new.
- The superman marks the end of a road on which we find such figures as the "godded man" of English Reformation mystics
- "She is so lately godded that she is still a rather poor goddess, Stranger.
See also
* agnosticism * apatheism * atheism * deism * divine * henotheism * kathenotheism * gnosticism * monolatrism * monotheism * pandeism * pantheism * polytheism * Tetragrammaton * theismReferences
*Anagrams
* (l), (l) 1000 English basic words ----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.