Force
(v. t.) To stuff |
Force
(n.) A waterfall |
Force
(n.) Strength or energy of body or mind |
Force
(n.) Power exerted against will or consent |
Force
(n.) Strength or power for war |
Force
(n.) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things |
Force
(n.) Validity |
Force
(n.) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion |
Force
(n.) To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible |
Force
(n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence |
Force
(n.) To do violence to |
Force
(n.) To obtain or win by strength |
Force
(n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence |
Force
(n.) To put in force |
Force
(n.) To exert to the utmost |
Force
(n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none. |
Force
(n.) To provide with forces |
Force
(n.) To allow the force of |
Force
(v. i.) To use violence |
Force
(v. i.) To make a difficult matter of anything |
Force
(v. i.) To be of force, importance, or weight |
Force pump
() A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves |
Force pump
() A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure |
Reaction
(n.) Any action in resisting other action or force |
Reaction
(n.) The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame. |
Reaction
(n.) An action induced by vital resistance to some other action |
Reaction
(n.) The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction. |
Reaction
(n.) Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction. |
Response
(n.) The act of responding. |
Response
(n.) An answer or reply. |
Response
(n.) Reply to an objection in formal disputation. |
Response
(n.) The answer of the people or congregation to the priest or clergyman, in the litany and other parts of divine service. |
Response
(n.) A kind of anthem sung after the lessons of matins and some other parts of the office. |
Response
(n.) A repetition of the given subject in a fugue by another part on the fifth above or fourth below. |
| tour de force | a masterly or brilliant feat |
drive thrust
driving force | the act of applying force to propel something, after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off |
force out
force-out
force play
force | 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, the shortstop got the runner at second on a force |
| reaction | doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like, his style of painting was a reaction against cubism |
reaction
response | a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent, a bad reaction to the medicine, his responses have slowed with age |
galvanic skin response
GSR
psychogalvanic response
electrodermal response
electrical skin response
Fere phenomenon
Tarchanoff phenomenon | a change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety, can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body |
immune response
immune reaction
immunologic response | a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen |
anamnestic response
anamnestic reaction | renewed rapid production of an antibody on the second (or subsequent) encounter with the same antigen |
| humoral immune response | an immune response (chiefly against bacterial invasion) that is mediated by B cells |
| cell-mediated immune response | an immune response (chiefly against viral or fungal invasions or transplanted tissue) that involves T cells |
reflex
reflex response
reflex action
instinctive reflex
innate reflex
inborn reflex
unconditioned reflex
physiological reaction | an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus |
conditional reflex
conditioned reflex
acquired reflex
conditional reaction
conditioned reaction
conditional response
conditioned response | an acquired response that is under the control of (conditional on the occurrence of) a stimulus |
learned reaction
learned response | a reaction that has been acquired by learning |
conditioned avoidance
conditioned avoidance response | a conditioned response that anticipates the occurrence of an aversive stimulus |
startle response
startle reaction | a complicated involuntary reaction to a sudden unexpected stimulus (especially a loud noise), involves flexion of most skeletal muscles and a variety of visceral reactions |
| violence force | an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists), he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one |
| reconnaissance in force | an offensive operation designed to discover or test the enemy's strength (or to obtain other information) |
| transfusion reaction | reaction of the body to a transfusion of blood that is not compatible with its own blood, an adverse reaction can range from fever and hives to renal failure and shock and death |
Air Force Research Laboratory
AFRL | a United States Air Force defense laboratory responsible for discovering and developing and integrating fighting technologies for aerospace forces |
| force pump | pump used to force a liquid up and expel it under pressure |
lubricating system
force-feed lubricating system
force feed
pressure-feed lubricating system
pressure feed | mechanical system of lubricating internal combustion engines in which a pump forces oil into the engine bearings |
reaction-propulsion engine
reaction engine | a jet or rocket engine based on a form of aerodynamic propulsion in which the vehicle emits a high-speed stream |
| reaction turbine | a turbine with blades arranged to develop torque from gradual decrease of steam pressure from inlet to exhaust |
| effect force | (of a law) having legal validity, the law is still in effect |
| frequency response | (electronics) a curve representing the output-to-input ratio of a transducer as a function of frequency |
force
forcefulness
strength | physical energy or intensity, 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 |
| force | a powerful effect or influence, the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them |
| response | the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals |
Wassermann test
Wasserman reaction
Wassermann | a blood test to detect syphilis, a complement fixation test is used to detect antibodies to the syphilis organism treponema, a positive reaction indicates the presence of antibodies and therefore syphilis infection |
conditioned emotional response
CER
conditioned emotion | an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning |
third law of motion
Newton's third law of motion
Newton's third law
law of action and reaction | action and reaction are equal and opposite |
| reaction | an idea evoked by some experience, his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do |
| reaction | extreme conservatism in political or social matters, the forces of reaction carried the election |
| response | a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister |
| reception response | the manner in which something is greeted, she did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors |
| answer reply response | a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation, I waited several days for his answer, he wrote replies to several of his critics |
reply
response | the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange, he growled his reply |
act of God
force majeure
vis major
inevitable accident
unavoidable casualty | a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events, he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God |
| Force | formed in as a personal security force for Arafat and other PLO leaders, became one of PLO's elite units, has built an extensive infrastructure of terrorist cells and weapon depots in Europe while attacking Israeli targets |
Irish National Liberation Army
INLA
People's Liberation Army
People's Republican Army
Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
| Loyalist Volunteer Force | a terrorist group formed in in Northern Ireland, seeks to prevent the peace process, murders Catholics and any Protestant leaders who favor peace |
United Self-Defense Force of Colombia
United Self-Defense Group of Colombia
Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia
AUC | a terrorist organization in Colombia formed in as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups, is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of its members, the AUC conducted over assassinations in one year |
defense defence defense force
defence force | an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack, he joined the defense against invasion |
sales department
sales division
sales force | the division of a business that is responsible for selling products or services |
labor force
labor pool | the source of trained people from which workers can be hired |
| task force | a temporary military unit formed to accomplish a particular objective |
United States Air Force Academy
US Air Force Academy | a school for training men and women to become officers in the United States Air Force |
Royal Air Force
RAF | the airforce of Great Britain |
air force
airforce | the airborne branch of a country's armed forces |
United States Air Force
U. S. Air Force
US Air Force
Air Force USAF | the airforce of the United States of America, the agency that defends the United States through control and exploitation of air and space |