(n.) Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.
(n.) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
(n.) Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.
(n.) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
(n.) Validity; efficacy.
(n.) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
(n.) To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
(n.) To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
(n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
(n.) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
(n.) 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 consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
(n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
(n.) To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
(n.) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
(v. i.) To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
(v. i.) To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
(v. i.) To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
Example Sentences:
(1) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
(2) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(3) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
(4) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
(5) Further, the maximal increase in force of contraction was measured using papillary muscle strips from some of these patients.
(6) "What has made that worse is the disingenuous way the force has defended their actions.
(7) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(8) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(9) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(10) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
(11) She knows you can’t force the opposition to submit to your point of view.
(12) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
(13) In a series of compounds with H2-antihistaminic activity, a conformational analysis was performed based on force field calculations.
(14) Peptides from this region bind to actin, act as mixed inhibitors of the actin-stimulated S1 Mg2(+)-ATPase, and influence the contractile force developed in skinned fibres, whereas peptides flanking this sequence are without effect in our test systems.
(15) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(16) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(17) These reflexes can function to limit forces applied to a leg and provide compensatory adjustments in other legs.
(18) Five investigations into the force are being carried out by the IPCC.
(19) The data indicate that with force present for 10% of the time (1:9), there was little or no effect on eruption rate.
(20) The mechanical forces involved in neurite extension have begun to be quantified, and interactions between the actin and microtubule systems are being further characterized.
Ladle
Definition:
(v. t.) A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
(v. t.) A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.
(v. t.) The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.
(v. t.) An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
(v. t.) A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
(v. t.) To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle; as, to ladle out soup; to ladle oatmeal into a kettle.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are also known for space-saving devices such as utensils which pack neatly on top of each other in a stand, spatulas, palette knifes and ladles that use a weighted handle to avoid being placed on the countertop, thus saving cleaning.
(2) My grandad used to deliver the milk and ladle it into people’s teapots.
(3) The highest dust exposures were found during furnace, cupola, and pouring ladle repair.
(4) The latest recovery has been robust, but it was always a fantasy to believe that the ECB could solve all the euro's problems with its long-term refinancing operations, ladling out ultra-cheap three-year money to European banks .
(5) Ladle a little of the pasta cooking water into the other pan.
(6) Pour in a small ladleful of batter and swirl around to cover the base of the pan.
(7) 7 Ladle the sauce into a warmed serving dish and arrange the koftas on top.
(8) There's some shared soup somewhere in my head from which these two things are ladling."
(9) When the first ladleful is absorbed add the trevisano and stir through (this will gradually soften throughout the cooking process).
(10) In the 1st part of the experiment, older and younger adults read a series of high-cloze sentence frames, each missing its final word (e.g., "She ladled the soup into her____.").
(11) A malacological survey was undertaken at three-monthly intervals by means of ten scoops with a perforated ladle each ten metres along the two banks of the ditches and streams of the region.
(12) She has ladled out countless bowls of her pork noodle soup, but the owner of a Hanoi streetside restaurant says she was stunned when Barack Obama strolled in, pulled up a plastic stool and slurped down Vietnam’s famed “bun cha” delicacy.
(13) Once the pan is really hot, reduce the heat to medium and add the pancake mix using a ladle – about 2tbsp of batter per crepe.
(14) When the butter starts to sizzle, give the batter a quick stir, then pour or ladle in enough to give a wafer-thin layer.
(15) Add the enoki mushrooms to the broth, simmer for a minute or two, then ladle over the cheeks.
(16) Use a ladle to apply a thin layer of pancake mixture to the pan, try to cook it with no colour - approximately two minutes, and then turn it.
(17) One of my happiest food memories is of eating a black dhal (made with the dark unskinned "urad" lentil) before sunrise in Pakistan during Ramadan – rich and spicy and thickened with heavy ladles of butter or "ghee" to fill you up for the day.
(18) It’s set to invade your mind all over again: those four trilling balalaika notes, like four great big tablespoons of treacle ladled into your mind.
(19) Keep checking the rice after about 20 minutes and when almost done add another ladleful of stock, the parmesan, a squeeze of lemon, the remaining butter and stir.
(20) On every street corner of this district, at around noon, a woman with a big tin pot ladles out thick gruel to a stream of small children carrying tin bowls.