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force-feed

WordNet
  1. (v) force-feed
    feed someone who will not or cannot eat
Usage in the news

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, a retailer based in Los Angeles, has joined forces with Feeding America to kick off a fall campaign to raise funds for food banks around the country. bevindustry.com

Red Bulls coach Hans Backe has never believed in playing youth for developments' sake, force-feeding rookies just for the sake of it. nypost.com

Government trying to change desert culture that force-feeds girls. msnbc.msn.com

No Force -Feeding Necessary. theatlantic.com

Force-feeding asphalt to Charleston while the rest of S.C. thestate.com

If inventories do run low, you may be forced to purchase additional feed ingredients. hoards.com

Schwartz, Carmellini, and Other Chefs Force-Feed Readers With Weak Foie Gras Logic. miaminewtimes.com

Utah inmate's starvation death spurs bill on force-feeding. sltrib.com

New York's nanny force-feeds new mothers the rightousness of breastfeeding. ashingtontimes.com

Astros forced to work through new rules to feed Latin America pipeline. blog.chron.com

According to police, she forced the dog to drink Drano and bleach, feeding the dog pills, and cutting the dog's throat all different events. ozz.com

His sheep only come off the pasture in February and lamb in March in the barn, where he is forced to feed hay. farmanddairy.com

Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials requested a temporary restraining order to force feed inmate Devenish Sorzano. team4news.com

Groups join forces to feed even more at Houston Thanksgiving feast. chron.com

This years' drought has forced Nebraska cattle ranchers to get creative when feeding their livestock . kcci.com

Usage in scientific papers

Computation is implemented by the plasmodium which optimizes it feeding pattern under control of attracting/repelling forces.
Hot Ice Computer

Weyl tensor (which represents tidal gravitational forces) induces shear through Eαβ , that then feeds into the Raychaudhuri and vorticity propagation equations, influencing the nature of the fluid flow. 32This can be see from equation (2.97).
Backreaction and the Covariant Formalism of General Relativity

We have explored in more detail the mode of disc feeding seen in our SPHS simulations, going to higher resolution and employing a kernel that gives improved force accuracy.
Thermal instabilities in cooling galactic coronae: fuelling star formation in galactic discs

It is also the most disturbed (±1,000 N) with oscillations between −2,450 N and −450 N. In the same way, the force along the feed rate axis (Fz) has important average amplitude (1,000 N), and the oscillations have less width in absolute value (±200 N), but also in relative value (±20%).
A force torsor analysis for a turning process in the presence of self-excited vibrations

In turn, this adds more to the complexity of the problem by forcing us to feed the system in (34) with the i − j equation to O(4).
Breaking Diffeomorphism Invariance and Tests for the Emergence of Gravity

Usage in literature

We neither pay these forces, nor feed them, nor clothe them. "The Attache" by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We neither pay these forces, nor feed them, nor clothe them. "The Attache" by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

She afforded him the shortest way of striking at his enemy and the richest land for feeding the German forces. "The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)" by John Holland Rose

Furnished with wings, it does not remain in the nest, but is forced to return thither by the strange incapacity to feed itself. "Scientific American Supplement No. 822" by Various

If we could not find horse feed inside of four hours, we would be forced to retreat. "The Killer" by Stewart Edward White

The process is in a sense a forcing one through feeding of relatively large amounts of grain. "Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry" by Pratt Food Co.

Only once was one of the girls bitten when she attempted force-feeding. "Growing Nuts in the North" by Carl Weschcke

This will force the hungry "worms" to feed on the baits, to their prompt destruction. "Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato" by William Warner Tracy

Facing starvation, he and his followers were forced to feed upon the berries growing around them. "All About Coffee" by William H. Ukers

The roots feed close to the surface and do not seem to be well adapted to forcing their way through heavy clays. "Manual of American Grape-Growing" by U. P. Hedrick

Usage in poetry
Ye orators of point and pith,
Who force the world to heed you,
What skeletons you'll journey with
Ere it is forced to feed you.
One forceful nature uncreate
That feeds itself with death and fate,
Evil and good, and change and time,
That within all men lies at wait
Till the hour shall bid them climb
And live sublime.