Forced in a sentence as an adjective

> Facebook never did stuff like this, never forced us to change layouts like this.

He asked me get into the front seat, and then told me we had to act like friends if we were forced to stop and end up getting harrassed.

I'm licensing it, and it can be taken away, or I can be forced into "updates" that may change it in ways I don't want.

Teachers are forced to build a profile of every child in their class along with a description of his/her family's situation.

Clojure supports 'declare' so you are not forced to define your functions in any particular order.#2 is the ***** in the details.

What bothers me is that I've been forced to do manual data entry - a pet peeve of mine as a programmer - because the government has been lobbied specifically to be less efficient.

But how else is someone with nontechnical parents supposed to get started?It's sooo much different when it's something you choose to do with your free time, rather than something half-assedly forced on you by parents or school curriculum.

Back before we had fancy alloy springs and were forced to use Steel as the material for mainsprings because that's all we knew, watches had problems where a freshly wound watch would run fast and a watch that hasn't been wound for a day or so would start to run slow, as the strength of the spring tapered off. The Geneva Drive was a solution, though it's more of a hack, to only let the spring release power inside the middle of it's power arc, by preventing the watch from unwinding past a certain low point and preventing the user from winding the spring up to it's strongest point.

Forced definitions

adjective

produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators"

adjective

forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor"

adjective

made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing"

adjective

lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile"

See also: constrained strained