Jerk vs. Force: What's the Difference?

To give a sudden quick thrust, push, pull, or twist to.

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

To throw or toss with a quick abrupt motion.

Power made operative against resistance; exertion

To utter abruptly or sharply

The use of physical power or violence to compel or restrain

To make and serve (ice-cream sodas, for example) at a soda fountain.

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

(Sports) To press (a weight) overhead from shoulder height in a quick motion.

Moral strength.

To move in sudden abrupt motions; jolt

A capacity for affecting the mind or behavior; efficacy

To make spasmodic motions

One that possesses such capacity

To cut (meat) into long strips and dry in the sun or cure by exposing to smoke.

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

A sudden abrupt motion, such as a yank or twist.

A person or group capable of influential action

A jolting or lurching motion.

Military strength.

(Physiology) A sudden reflexive or spasmodic muscular movement.

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

Jerks Involuntary convulsive twitching often resulting from excitement. Often used with the.

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.

(Slang) A foolish, rude, or contemptible person.

See fundamental force.

(Sports) A lift in which the weight is heaved overhead from shoulder height with a quick motion.

(Baseball) A force play.

Being or relating to a method of barbecuing meat that has been seasoned and wrapped in leaves of the allspice tree

To compel through pressure or necessity

A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.

To gain by the use of force or coercion

A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.

To move or effect against resistance or inertia

A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable.

To inflict or impose relentlessly

A dull or stupid person.

To put undue strain on

The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.

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

(obsolete) A soda jerk.

To produce with effort and against one's will

(weightlifting) A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time.

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

A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.

To move, open, or clear by force

Meat (or sometimes vegetables) cured by jerking, in which it is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; charqui.

To break down or open by force

(intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.

To rape.

(transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.

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

To masturbate.

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

(obsolete) To beat, to hit.

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

(obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.

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

To lift using a jerk.

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

(obsolete) To flout with contempt.

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

To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

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

To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, to jerk beef. See Charqui.

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

To beat; to strike.

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 give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off.

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 throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.

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

To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.

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

To flout with contempt.

(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 short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion.

(legal) Legal validity.

A sudden start or spring.

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

Calisthenic exercises, such as push-ups or deep knee bends; also called physical jerks.

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

A foolish, stupid, or otherwise contemptible person.

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The lifting of a weight, in a single rapid motion, from shoulder height until the arms are outstretched above the head; distinguished from press in that the motion in a jerk is more rapid, and the body may be moved under the weight to assist completion of the movement; as, a clean and jerk of two hundred pounds.

Synonym of police force

A dull stupid fatuous person

A waterfall or cascade.

An abrupt spasmodic movement

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

(mechanics) the rate of change of velocity

To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.

A sudden abrupt pull

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

Pull, or move with a sudden movement;

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

Move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions;

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

Make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion;

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

Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched;

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

Throw or toss with a quick motion;

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

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.

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

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

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

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

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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;