Force and Pull

force

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.

pull

noun

The act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you.
- usage: "the pull up the hill had him breathing harder"; "his strenuous pulling strained his back"
- synonyms: pulling
The force used in pulling.
- usage: "the pull of the moon"; "the pull of the current"
Special advantage or influence.
- usage: "the chairman's nephew has a lot of pull"
- synonyms: clout
A device used for pulling something.
- usage: "he grabbed the pull and opened the drawer"
A sharp strain on muscles or ligaments.
- usage: "the wrench to his knee occurred as he fell"; "he was sidelined with a hamstring pull"
- synonyms: wrench, twist
A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke. )
- usage: "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly"
- synonyms: puff, drag
A sustained effort.
- usage: "it was a long pull but we made it"

verb

Cause to move by pulling.
- usage: "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"
- synonyms: draw, force
Direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes.
- usage: "Her good looks attract the stares of many men"; "The ad pulled in many potential customers"; "This pianist pulls huge crowds"; "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers"
- synonyms: attract, pull in, draw, draw in
Move into a certain direction.
- usage: "the car pulls to the right"
Apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion.
- usage: "Pull the rope"; "Pull the handle towards you"; "pull the string gently"; "pull the trigger of the gun"; "pull your knees towards your chin"
Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, commit
Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover.
- usage: "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim"
- synonyms: draw, pull out, get out, take out
Steer into a certain direction.
- usage: "pull one's horse to a stand"; "Pull the car over"
Strain abnormally.
- usage: "I pulled a muscle in my leg when I jumped up"; "The athlete pulled a tendon in the competition"
- synonyms: overstretch
Cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense.
- usage: "A declining dollar pulled down the export figures for the last quarter"
- synonyms: draw
Operate when rowing a boat.
- usage: "pull the oars"
Rein in to keep from winning a race.
- usage: "pull a horse"
Tear or be torn violently.
- usage: "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"
- synonyms: rend, rip, rive
Hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing.
- usage: "pull the ball"
Strip of feathers.
- usage: "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"
- synonyms: pluck, tear, deplume, deplumate, displume
Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense.
- usage: "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
- synonyms: extract, pull out, pull up, take out, draw out
Take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for.
- usage: "We all rooted for the home team"; "I'm pulling for the underdog"; "Are you siding with the defender of the title"
- synonyms: root for
Take away.
- usage: "pull the old soup cans from the supermarket shelf"

(v.t.) To gather with the hand or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
(v.t.) To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
(v.t.) To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
(v.t.) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
(v.t.) To draw or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
(n.) Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.
(n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
(n.) The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
(n.) The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.
(v.i.) To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.
(n.) A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
(n.) The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer or the mug.
(n.) A knob, handle or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
(v.t.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
(v.t.) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.
(n.) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side or an off ball to the side.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Pull is used in the context of general equities. See: Cancel.

Force and Pull in Power Thesaurus