Camber (n.) An upward convexity of a deck or other surface |
Camber (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel |
Camber (v. t.) To cut bend to an upward curve |
Camber (v. i.) To curve upward. |
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 |
Thrust (n. & v.) Thrist. |
Thrust (imp. & p. p.) of Thrust |
Thrust (v. t.) To push or drive with force |
Thrust (v. t.) To stab |
Thrust (v. i.) To make a push |
Thrust (v. i.) To enter by pushing |
Thrust (v. i.) To push forward |
Thrust (n.) A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument |
Thrust (n.) An attack |
Thrust (n.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts |
Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. |
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 |
jab jabbing poke poking thrust thrusting | a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow), he warned me with a jab with his finger, he made a thrusting motion with his fist |
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) |
camber | the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top |
stab thrust knife thrust | a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument, one strong stab to the heart killed him |
lunge straight thrust passado | (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward |
knife fight snickersnee cut-and-thrust | fighting with knives |
Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL | a United States Air Force defense laboratory responsible for discovering and developing and integrating fighting technologies for aerospace forces |
camber arch | an arch with a straight horizontal extrados and a slightly arched intrados |
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 |
thrust bearing | a bearing designed to take thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution |
thrust stage | a theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides |
effect force | (of a law) having legal validity, the law is still in effect |
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 |
thrust | verbal criticism, he enlivened his editorials with barbed thrusts at politicians |
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 |
Air Force Space Command AFSPC | a command of the United States Air Force that is responsible for defending the United States through its space and intercontinental ballistic missile operations |
Air Force Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Air Force ISR AFISR | an agency focused on ensuring that the United States military attains information superiority, operates worldwide ground sites and an array of airborne reconnaissance and surveillance platforms |
guerrilla force guerilla force | an irregular armed force that fights by sabotage and harassment, often rural and organized in large groups |
military unit military force military group force | a unit that is part of some military service, he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men |
paramilitary paramilitary force paramilitary unit paramilitary organization paramilitary organisation | a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops) |
force | a group of people having the power of effective action, he joined forces with a band of adventurers |
force personnel | group of people willing to obey orders, a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens |
task force | a semipermanent unit created to carry out a continuing task |
police police force constabulary law | the force of policemen and officers, the law came looking for him |
security force private security force | a privately employed group hired to protect the security of a business or industry |
work force workforce manpower hands men | the force of workers available |
air force academy | an academy for training air force officers |
Israeli Defense Force IDF | the ground and air and naval forces of Israel |
electromotive series electromotive force series electrochemical series | a serial arrangement of metallic elements or ions according to their electrode potentials determined under specified conditions, the order shows the tendency of one metal to reduce the ions of any other metal below it in the series |
moral force dynamic | an efficient incentive, they hoped it would act as a spiritual dynamic on all churches |
bank cant camber | a slope in the turn of a road or track, the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force |
thrust fault overthrust fault reverse fault | a geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression |