Noun

(en noun)

Any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus'', having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated farm animal ''Sus scrofa .

The farmer kept a pen with two pigs that he fed from table scraps and field waste.

(lb) A young swine, a piglet .

* 2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission (ISBN 1457819899), page I-9:

Weanlings grow into feeder pigs', and feeder '''pigs''' grow into slaughter hogs. Ultimately the end use for virtually all ' pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.

(uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.

Some religions prohibit their adherents from eating pig .

* 2005 , Ross Eddy Osborn, Thorns of a Tainted Rose (ISBN 0741425319), page 196:

"Miss Chastene, could you fetch me out an extra plate of pig and biscuit[?] My partner can't do without your marvelous cooking."

Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.

You gluttonous pig ! Now that you've eaten all the cupcakes, there will be none for the party!

A nasty or disgusting person.

She considered him a pig as he invariably stared at her bosom when they talked.

A dirty or slovenly person.

He was a pig and his apartment a pigpen; take-away containers and pizza boxes in a long, moldy stream lined his counter tops.

The protester shouted, “Don't give in to the pigs !” as he was arrested.

* 1989 , , (Carrion Comfort) , page 359,

“...Sounds too easy,” Marvin was saying. “What about the pigs ?”

He meant police.

* 1990 , Jay Robert Nash, Encyclopedia of World Crime: Volume 1: A-C , page 198,

The bank robberies went on and each raid became more bloody, Meinhof encouraging her followers to “kill the pigs ” offering the slightest resistance, referring to policemen.

* 2008 , Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention , page 63,

Backing 300 of the more aggressive protesters was a supporting cast of several thousand more who stared down the small line of police. Those in front resumed their taunts of “Pig', '''pig''', fascist '''pig''',” and “'''pigs''' eat shit, ' pigs eat shit.” The rest of the crowd, however, backed off and sat down on the grass when reinforcements arrived. Police did not retaliate for the name-calling, and within minutes the line of demonstrators broke apart and the incident was over without violence.¹¹³

* 2011 , T. J. English, The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge , unnumbered page,

But me, I joined the party to fight the pigs . That?s why I joined. Because my experience with the police was always negative.

(informal) A difficult problem.

Hrm... this one's a real pig : I've been banging my head against the wall over it for hours!

(countable, and, uncountable) A block of cast metal.

The conveyor carried the pigs from the smelter to the freight cars.

After the ill-advised trade, the investor was stuck with worthless options for 10,000 tons of iron pig .

The mold in which a block of metal is cast.

The pig was cracked, and molten metal was oozing from the side.

(engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.

Unfortunately, the pig sent to clear the obstruction got lodged in a tight bend, adding to the problem.

(pejorative) a person who is obese to the extent of resembling a pig (the animal)

The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.

Unfortunately, the M60 is about twenty-four pounds and is very unbalanced. You try carrying the pig around the jungle and see how you feel.

Noun

(en noun)

(Scottish) earthenware, or an earthenware shard

An earthenware hot-water jar to warm a bed; a stone bed warmer

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.

Noun

(en noun)

(countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.

* T. Gray

to see the falls or force of the river Kent