"force quit" meaning in All languages combined

See force quit on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: force quits [present, singular, third-person], force quitting [participle, present], force quit [participle, past], force quit [past], force quitted [participle, past], force quitted [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|force quit<,++,quit:quitted>}} force quit (third-person singular simple present force quits, present participle force quitting, simple past and past participle force quit or force quitted)
  1. (transitive) (intransitive) To abort an unresponsive computer program, bypassing the usual closure process. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-force_quit-en-verb-x2pXVgt4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "force quits",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "force quitting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "force quit",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "force quit",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "force quitted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "force quitted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "force quit<,++,quit:quitted>"
      },
      "expansion": "force quit (third-person singular simple present force quits, present participle force quitting, simple past and past participle force quit or force quitted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991 May 26, Kiran Wagle, “Re: Good Stuff & Bad Stuff about System 7”, in comp.sys.mac.system (Usenet), retrieved 2024-09-08:",
          "text": "Works real well :) on an si... i even got a buzzing video box for a cursor when i tried to 'force quit'...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 July 24, Bill Johnston, “Teleport <-> Balloon Help conflict”, in comp.sys.mac.comm (Usenet), retrieved 2018-09-05, message-ID <59524@nigel.ee.udel.edu>:",
          "text": "Symptom: choose \"About Balloon Help\" from the Help Menu, then click on the Application menu icon. Mac freezes (but it is possible to force quit the current application). On returning to Finder the Application menu and \"About Balloon Help\" remain disabled. Eventually the Mac crashes completely.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992 October 15, Edward V. Wright, “Re: the NeXT option (Was Re: 7.1 vs. OS/2 and Windows NT)”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet), retrieved 2018-09-05, message-ID <ewright.719169334@convex.convex.com>:",
          "text": "Hm? I'm not sure what you mean by this. I'm sure you wouldn't want to \"force quit\" a background application everytime^([sic]) you press a key. As for the other things, the macintosh already does them just fine now, so I don't see the advantage in changing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To abort an unresponsive computer program, bypassing the usual closure process."
      ],
      "id": "en-force_quit-en-verb-x2pXVgt4",
      "links": [
        [
          "abort",
          "abort"
        ],
        [
          "unresponsive",
          "unresponsive"
        ],
        [
          "computer program",
          "computer program"
        ],
        [
          "bypass",
          "bypass"
        ],
        [
          "closure",
          "closure"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) (intransitive) To abort an unresponsive computer program, bypassing the usual closure process."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "force quit"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "force quits",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "force quitting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "force quit",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "force quit",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "force quitted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "force quitted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "force quit<,++,quit:quitted>"
      },
      "expansion": "force quit (third-person singular simple present force quits, present participle force quitting, simple past and past participle force quit or force quitted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991 May 26, Kiran Wagle, “Re: Good Stuff & Bad Stuff about System 7”, in comp.sys.mac.system (Usenet), retrieved 2024-09-08:",
          "text": "Works real well :) on an si... i even got a buzzing video box for a cursor when i tried to 'force quit'...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 July 24, Bill Johnston, “Teleport <-> Balloon Help conflict”, in comp.sys.mac.comm (Usenet), retrieved 2018-09-05, message-ID <59524@nigel.ee.udel.edu>:",
          "text": "Symptom: choose \"About Balloon Help\" from the Help Menu, then click on the Application menu icon. Mac freezes (but it is possible to force quit the current application). On returning to Finder the Application menu and \"About Balloon Help\" remain disabled. Eventually the Mac crashes completely.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992 October 15, Edward V. Wright, “Re: the NeXT option (Was Re: 7.1 vs. OS/2 and Windows NT)”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet), retrieved 2018-09-05, message-ID <ewright.719169334@convex.convex.com>:",
          "text": "Hm? I'm not sure what you mean by this. I'm sure you wouldn't want to \"force quit\" a background application everytime^([sic]) you press a key. As for the other things, the macintosh already does them just fine now, so I don't see the advantage in changing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To abort an unresponsive computer program, bypassing the usual closure process."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "abort",
          "abort"
        ],
        [
          "unresponsive",
          "unresponsive"
        ],
        [
          "computer program",
          "computer program"
        ],
        [
          "bypass",
          "bypass"
        ],
        [
          "closure",
          "closure"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) (intransitive) To abort an unresponsive computer program, bypassing the usual closure process."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "force quit"
}

Download raw JSONL data for force quit meaning in All languages combined (2.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.