Found 3 items, similar to forcing.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: forcing pemaksaan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: force force n 1: a unit that is part of some military service; “he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men” [syn: military unit, military force, military group] 2: one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority; “the mysterious presence of an evil power”; “may the force be with you”; “the forces of evil” [syn: power] 3: (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; “force equals mass times acceleration” 4: group of people willing to obey orders; “a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens” [syn: personnel] 5: a powerful effect or influence; “the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them” 6: an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); “he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one” [syn: violence] 7: physical energy or intensity; “he hit with all the force he could muster”; “it was destroyed by the strength of the gale”; “a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man” [syn: forcefulness, strength] 8: a group of people having the power of effective action; “he joined forces with a band of adventurers” 9: (of a law) having legal validity; “the law is still in effect” [syn: effect] force v 1: to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :“She forced him to take a job in the city”; “He squeezed her for information” [syn: coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure] 2: urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate [syn: impel] 3: move with force, “He pushed the table into a corner” [syn: push] [ant: pull] 4: impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; “She forced her diet fads on him” [syn: thrust] 5: squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; “I squeezed myself into the corner” [syn: wedge, squeeze] 6: force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; “She rammed her mind into focus”; “He drives me mad” [syn: drive, ram] 7: do forcibly; exert force; “Don't force it!” 8: cause to move along the ground by pulling; “draw a wagon”; “pull a sled” [syn: pull, draw] [ant: push] 9: take by force; “Storm the fort” [syn: storm]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Forcing Forcing \For"cing\, n. 1. The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition. [1913 Webster] 2. (Gardening) The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat. [1913 Webster] Forcing bed or Forcing pit, a plant bed having an under layer of fermenting manure, the fermentation yielding bottom heat for forcing plants; a hotbed. Forcing engine, a fire engine. Forcing fit (Mech.), a tight fit, as of one part into a hole in another part, which makes it necessary to use considerable force in putting the two parts together. Forcing house, a greenhouse for the forcing of plants, fruit trees, etc. Forcing machine, a powerful press for putting together or separating two parts that are fitted tightly one into another, as for forcing a crank on a shaft, or for drawing off a car wheel from the axle. Forcing pump. See Force pump (b) . [1913 Webster] Force \Force\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forced; p. pr. & vb. n. Forcing.] [OF. forcier, F. forcer, fr. LL. forciare, fortiare. See Force, n.] 1. To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor. [1913 Webster] 2. To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind. [1913 Webster] 3. To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one's will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon. [1913 Webster] To force their monarch and insult the court. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] I should have forced thee soon wish other arms. --Milton. [1913 Webster] To force a spotless virgin's chastity. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To obtain, overcome, or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress; as, to force the castle; to force a lock. [1913 Webster] 5. To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc. [1913 Webster] It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay That scarce the victor forced the steel away. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] To force the tyrant from his seat by war. --Sahk. [1913 Webster] Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] 6. To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] What can the church force more? --J. Webster. [1913 Webster] 7. To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a conceit or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits. [1913 Webster] High on a mounting wave my head I bore, Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 8. (Whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none. [1913 Webster] 9. To provide with forces; to re["e]nforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 10. To allow the force of; to value; to care for. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] For me, I force not argument a straw. --Shak. Syn: To compel; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce; drive; press; impel. [1913 Webster]