force vs unit

force

noun
  • A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain. 

  • A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note. 

  • 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. 

  • A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn) 

  • The ability to attack, control, or constrain. 

  • Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect. 

  • Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape. 

  • Legal validity. 

  • Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion. 

  • Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion. 

  • Synonym of police force 

  • Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing. 

  • Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning. 

  • A waterfall or cascade. 

verb
  • To compel (someone or something) to do something. 

  • To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.). 

  • 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. 

  • To violate (a woman); to rape. 

  • To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force. 

  • To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of. 

  • To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb). 

  • To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold. 

  • To stuff; to lard; to farce. 

unit

noun
  • An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force. 

  • A physically large person. 

  • With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units. 

  • The number one. 

  • a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway. 

  • A standard measure of a quantity. 

  • A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it. 

  • A member of a military organization. 

  • A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue. 

  • A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings. 

  • The identity element, neutral element. 

  • In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor. 

  • Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization. 

  • Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one. 

  • One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter). 

  • any piece of equipment, such as an appliance, power tool, stereo system, computer, tractor, or machinery. 

  • An organized group comprising people and/or equipment. 

  • A unit of alcohol. 

  • An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity. 

  • An item which may be sold singly. 

  • A work unit. 

  • A penis, especially a large one. 

adj
  • Having a size or magnitude of one. 

  • For each unit. 

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