adjective
- Measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle.
- usage: "angular momentum"
- Having angles or an angular shape.
- synonyms: angulate
Angular and Forced
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
- (a.) Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.
- (a.) Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.
- (a.) Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- (v.) ()
- Urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate.
- (v.) ()
- Impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably.
- usage: "She forced her diet fads on him"
- Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space.
- usage: "I squeezed myself into the corner"
- Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.
- usage: "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
- Cause to move by pulling.
- usage: "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"
- Do forcibly; exert force.
- usage: "Don't force it"
- synonyms: force
- Take by force.
- usage: "Storm the fort"
adjective
- Produced by or subjected to forcing.
- usage: "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators"
- Forced or compelled.
- usage: "promised to abolish forced labor"
- Made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency.
- usage: "a forced landing"
- Lacking spontaneity; not natural.
- usage: "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile"
- synonyms: constrained, strained
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (a.) Done or produced with force or great labor or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.
- (imp.&p.p.) of Force.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary