Meaning of 'force' (Webster Dictionary)
- A waterfall; a cascade.
- Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor;
might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of
exercising an influence or producing an effect; 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.
- 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.
- Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law,
upon persons or things; violence.
- Validity; efficacy.
- 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.
- 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 or win by strength; to take by violence or
struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- 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 consient 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 reenforce; 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.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
Meaning of 'force' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- physical energy or intensity
Example in sentence:- a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man;
- he hit with all the force he could muster;
- it was destroyed by the strength of the gale
Meaning (2):
- group of people willing to obey orders
Example in sentence:- a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens
Meaning (3):
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
Example in sentence:- force equals mass times acceleration
Meaning (4):
- a group of people having the power of effective action
Example in sentence:- he joined forces with a band of adventurers
Meaning (5):
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
Example in sentence:- he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one
Meaning (6):
- a unit that is part of some military service
Example in sentence:- he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men
Meaning (7):
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
Example in sentence:- may the force be with you;
- the forces of evil;
- the mysterious presence of an evil power
Meaning (8):
- a powerful effect or influence
Example in sentence:- the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them
Meaning (9):
- (of a law) having legal validity
Example in sentence:- the law is still in effect
Meaning (10):
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
Example in sentence:- the shortstop got the runner at second on a force
Meaning (11):
- do forcibly; exert force
Meaning (12):
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
Example in sentence:- He drives me mad;
- She rammed her mind into focus
Meaning (13):
- move with force
Example in sentence:- He pushed the table into a corner
Meaning (14):
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
Example in sentence:- He squeezed her for information;
- She forced him to take a job in the city
Meaning (15):
- take by force
Example in sentence:- Hitler took the Baltic Republics;
- Storm the fort;
- The army took the fort on the hill
Meaning (16):
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
Example in sentence:- I squeezed myself into the corner
Meaning (17):
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
Example in sentence:- She forced her diet fads on him
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