Bind vs. Force — What's the Difference?

To tie or secure, as with a rope or cord.

In physics, a force is any influence that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object. A force can cause an object with mass to change its velocity (which includes to begin moving from a state of rest), i.e., to accelerate.

To hold or restrain by tying with rope or bonds

Strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement

To fasten or wrap by encircling, as with a belt or ribbon

Coercion or compulsion, especially with the use or threat of violence

To bandage

Mental or moral strength or power

To compel, constrain, or unite

An organized body of military personnel or police

To make certain or irrevocable

A waterfall.

(Law) To place under legal obligation.

Make a way through or into by physical strength; break open by force

To apprentice or indenture

Make (someone) do something against their will

(Chemistry) To combine with, form a chemical bond with, or be taken up by, as an enzyme with its substrate.

The capacity to do work or cause physical change; energy, strength, or active power

To cause to cohere or stick together in a mass

Power made operative against resistance; exertion

To constipate.

The use of physical power or violence to compel or restrain

To enclose and fasten (the pages of a book or other printed material) between covers.

Intellectual power or vigor, especially as conveyed in writing or speech.

To furnish with an edge or border for protection, reinforcement, or ornamentation.

Moral strength.

To tie up or fasten something.

A capacity for affecting the mind or behavior; efficacy

To stick or become stuck

One that possesses such capacity

To be uncomfortably tight or restricting, as clothes.

A body of persons or other resources organized or available for a certain purpose

To become compact or solid; cohere.

A person or group capable of influential action

To be compelling, constraining, or unifying

Military strength.

(Chemistry) To combine chemically or form a chemical bond.

A unit of a nation's military personnel, especially one deployed into combat

The act of binding.

A vector quantity indicating the strength and direction of the capacity to accelerate a body. Newton's second law of motion states that a free body accelerates in the direction of the net force and that its acceleration is directly proportional to the force and inversely proportional to its mass.

The state of being bound.

See fundamental force.

Something that binds.

(Baseball) A force play.

A place where something binds

To compel through pressure or necessity

(Informal) A difficult, restrictive, or unresolvable situation

To gain by the use of force or coercion

(Music) A tie, slur, or brace.

To move or effect against resistance or inertia

(intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.

To inflict or impose relentlessly

(intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.

To put undue strain on

(intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.

To increase or accelerate (a pace, for example) to the maximum.

(intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.

To produce with effort and against one's will

(transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.

To use (language) with obvious lack of ease and naturalness.

(transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.

To move, open, or clear by force

(transitive) To couple.

To break down or open by force

(figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.

To rape.

(law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.

To induce change in (a complex system) by changing one of its parameters

(law) To place under legal obligation to serve.

(Botany) To cause to grow or mature by artificially accelerating normal processes.

(transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.

To put (a runner) out on a force play.

To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.

To allow (a run) to be scored by walking a batter when the bases are loaded.

(transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.

(Games) To cause an opponent to play (a particular card).

To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation.

Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.

(transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.

Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.

To make two or more elements stick together.

(countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.

To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.

A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)

To process one or more object modules into an executable program.

Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.

To complain; to whine about something.

(countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.

To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.

(uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.

That which binds or ties.

(countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.

A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.

(legal) Legal validity.

Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.

(legal) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.

(music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.

Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.

(chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.

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The indurated clay of coal mines.

Synonym of police force

To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

A waterfall or cascade.

To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams.

(transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.

To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; - sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.

To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.

To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part.

(transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.

To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.

(transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.

To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.

(transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).

To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.

(transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.

Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other.

(transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).

To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.

To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.

To tie; to confine by any ligature.

To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.

To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.

(whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.

To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.

(archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.

To exert a binding or restraining influence.

(archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.

That which binds or ties.

(obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.

Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

A ligature or tie for grouping notes.

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.

Something that hinders as if with bonds

To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.

Stick to firmly;

To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one's will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.

Create social or emotional ties;

To obtain, overcome, or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress; as, to force the castle; to force a lock.

Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope;

To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; - with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.

Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose

To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.

Secure with or as if with ropes;

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 conceit or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.

Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted;

To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.

Form a chemical bond with;

To provide with forces; to reënforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.

Provide with a binding;

To allow the force of; to value; to care for.

Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord;

To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.

Cause to be constipated;

To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.

To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.

A waterfall; a cascade.

Capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; 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.

Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion; as, by force of arms; to take by force.

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; the armed forces.

Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.

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.

A unit that is part of some military service;

One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority;

(physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity;

Group of people willing to obey orders;

A powerful effect or influence;

An act of aggression (as one against a person who resists);

Physical energy or intensity;

A group of people having the power of effective action;

(of a law) having legal validity;

To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :

Urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

Move with force,

Impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably;

Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space;

Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically;

Do forcibly; exert force;

Cause to move along the ground by pulling;

Take by force;