Force and Command

noun

• A powerful effect or influence.
  • usage: "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"
• Physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity. (
  • usage: "force equals mass times acceleration"
• Physical energy or intensity.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: forcefulness, strength
• Group of people willing to obey orders.
  • usage: "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"
  • synonyms: personnel
• A unit that is part of some military service.
  • usage: "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"
  • synonyms: military unit, military force, military group
• An act of aggression (as one against a person who resists. )
  • usage: "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"
  • synonyms: violence
• One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority.
  • usage: "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil"
  • synonyms: power
• A group of people having the power of effective action.
  • usage: "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"
• Of a law. ( having legal validity)
  • usage: "the law is still in effect"
  • synonyms: effect
• A putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base.
  • usage: "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force"
  • synonyms: force out, force-out, force play

verb

• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure
• Urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate.
  • synonyms: impel
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: push
• Impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably.
  • usage: "She forced her diet fads on him"
  • synonyms: thrust
• Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space.
  • usage: "I squeezed myself into the corner"
  • synonyms: wedge, squeeze
• Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.
  • usage: "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
  • synonyms: drive, ram
• Cause to move by pulling.
  • usage: "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"
  • synonyms: pull, draw
• Do forcibly; exert force.
  • usage: "Don't force it"
• Take by force.
  • usage: "Storm the fort"
  • synonyms: storm

• (n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
• (n.) A waterfall; a cascade.
• (n.) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
• (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 allow the force of; to value; to care for.
• (n.) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
• (v.i.) To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
• (n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
• (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.) 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 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 do violence to; to overpower or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
• (v.i.) To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
• (n.) Validity; efficacy.
• (n.) To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
• (v.i.) To be of force, importance or weight; to matter.
• (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.) To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
• (v.t.) To stuff; to lard; to farce.
• (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.) Strength or power exercised without law or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.

(DoD) An aggregation of military personnel, weapon systems, equipment, and necessary support, or combination thereof.
(DoD) A major subdivision of a fleet.

noun

• An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
  • synonyms: bid, bidding, dictation
• A military unit or region under the control of a single officer.
• The power or authority to command.
  • usage: "an admiral in command"
• Availability for use.
  • usage: "the materials at the command of the potters grew"
• A position of highest authority.
  • usage: "the corporation has just undergone a change in command"
• Great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity.
  • usage: "a good command of French"
  • synonyms: control, mastery
• Computer science. ( a line of code written as part of a computer program)
  • synonyms: instruction, statement, program line

verb

• Be in command of.
  • usage: "The general commanded a huge army"
• Make someone do something.
  • synonyms: require
• Demand as one's due.
  • usage: "This speaker commands a high fee"; "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"
• Look down on.
  • usage: "The villa dominates the town"
  • synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop
• Exercise authoritative control or power over.
  • usage: "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
  • synonyms: control

• (v.t.) To exercise direct authority over; to have control of; to have at one's disposal; to lead.
• (v.i.) To have or to exercise direct authority; to govern; to sway; to influence; to give an order or orders.
• (v.t.) To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
• (n.) A body of troops or any naval or military force or post or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer.
• (n.) An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.
• (n.) Authority; power or right of control; leadership; as, the forces under his command.
• (v.t.) To direct to come; to bestow.
• (v.t.) To have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to receive as a due; to challenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price.
• (n.) The possession or exercise of authority.
• (n.) Power to dominate, command or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey.
• (n.) Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge.
• (v.t.) To have within a sphere of control, influence, access or vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook.
• (v.i.) To have a view, as from a superior position.

(DoD) The authority that a commander in the armed forces lawfully exercises over subordinates by virtue of rank or assignment. Command includes the authority and responsibility for effectively using available resources and for planning the employment of, organizing, directing, coordinating, and controlling military forces for the accomplishment of assigned missions. It also includes responsibility for health, welfare, morale, and discipline of assigned personnel.
(DoD) An order given by a commander; that is, the will of the commander expressed for the purpose of bringing about a particular action.
(DoD) A unit or units, an organization, or an area under the command of one individual. Also called CMD. See also area command; combatant command; combatant command (command authority).