The difference between Force and Random
When used as nouns, force means strength or energy of body or mind, whereas random means a roving motion.
Force is also verb with the meaning: to violate (a woman).
Random is also adjective with the meaning: having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable.
check bellow for the other definitions of Force and Random
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Force as a noun:
Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
Examples:
"the force of an appeal, an argument, or a contract"
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Force as a noun:
Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
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Force as a noun (countable):
Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
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Force as a noun (countable, physics):
A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body which is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)
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Force as a noun:
Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
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Force as a noun (countable):
A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
Examples:
"police force'"
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Force as a noun (uncountable):
The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
Examples:
"show of force'"
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Force as a noun (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.
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Force as a noun (legal):
Legal validity.
Examples:
"The law will come into force in January."
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Force as a noun (legal):
Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
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Force as a noun (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics):
Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
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Force as a noun (science fiction):
A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe created by .
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Force as a verb (transitive):
To violate (a woman); to rape.
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Force as a verb (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive):
To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
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Force as a verb (transitive):
To compel (someone or something) do something.
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Force as a verb (transitive):
To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
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Force as a verb (transitive):
To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
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Force as a verb (transitive):
To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
Examples:
"The comedian's jokes weren't funny, but I forced a laugh now and then."
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Force as a verb (transitive):
To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
Examples:
"To force a lock."
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Force as a verb:
To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
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Force as a verb (transitive, baseball):
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.
Examples:
"Jones forced the runner at second by stepping on the bag."
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Force as a verb (whist):
To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
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Force as a verb (archaic):
To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
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Force as a verb (archaic):
To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
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Force as a verb (obsolete):
To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
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Force as a noun (countable, Northern England):
A waterfall or cascade.
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Force as a verb:
To stuff; to lard; to farce.
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Random as a noun:
A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
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Random as a noun (obsolete):
Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.
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Random as a noun (obsolete):
The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.
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Random as a noun (figuratively, colloquial):
An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.
Examples:
"The party was boring. It was full of randoms."
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Random as a noun (mining):
The direction of a rake-vein.
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Random as an adjective:
Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.
Examples:
"The flip of a fair coin is purely random."
"The newspaper conducted a random sample of five hundred American teenagers."
"The results of the field survey look random by several different measures."
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Random as an adjective (mathematics):
Of or relating to probability distribution.
Examples:
"A toss of loaded dice is still random, though biased."
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Random as an adjective (computing):
Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
Examples:
"The <tt>rand</tt> function generates a random number from a seed."
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Random as an adjective (somewhat colloquial):
Representative and undistinguished; typical and average; selected for no particular reason.
Examples:
"A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference."
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Random as an adjective (somewhat colloquial):
Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause or reason.
Examples:
"That was a completely random comment."
"The teacher's bartending story was interesting, but random."
"The narrative takes a random course."
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Random as an adjective (colloquial):
Characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.
Examples:
"You're so random!"