Force

[fɔːs] or [fɔrs]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) physical energy or intensity; 'he hit with all the force he could muster'; 'it was destroyed by the strength of the gale'; 'a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man'.

(noun.) a powerful effect or influence; 'the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them'.

(noun.) a group of people having the power of effective action; 'he joined forces with a band of adventurers'.

(noun.) group of people willing to obey orders; 'a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens'.

(noun.) (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; 'force equals mass times acceleration'.

(verb.) impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably; 'She forced her diet fads on him'.

(verb.) do forcibly; exert force; 'Don't force it!'.

(verb.) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; 'She rammed her mind into focus'; 'He drives me mad'.

卡里校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To stuff; to lard; to farce.

(n.) A waterfall; a cascade.

(n.) 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.

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

(n.) 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.

(n.) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.

(n.) Validity; efficacy.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) 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.

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

(n.) To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.

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

(v. i.) To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.

(v. i.) To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.

(v. i.) To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.

阿方索整理

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Strength (regarded as active), power, might, energy, vigor.[2]. Efficacy, efficiency, potency, validity, cogency, virtue, agency.[3]. Violence, compulsion, coercion, constraint, enforcement.[4]. Army, troop, legion, host, squadron, phalanx, regiment.

v. a. [1]. Compel, coerce, constrain, necessitate.[2]. Impel, drive, urge, press, clap.[3]. Ravish, violate, debauch, constuprate, deflour, commit a rape on.

吉恩編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Power, strength, agency, instrumentality, compulsion, cogency, vigor, might,dint, vehemence, pressure, host, army, coercion, validity, violence

ANT:Feebleness, weakness, counteraction, neutralization, inefficiency,inconclusiveness, debility, pointlessness

阿方索整理

解釋/意思:

n. strength power energy: efficacy: validity: influence: vehemence: violence: coercion or compulsion: military or naval strength (often in pl.): an armament: (mech.) any cause which changes the direction or speed of the motion of a portion of matter.—v.t. to draw or push by main strength: to compel: to constrain: to compel by strength of evidence: to take by violence: to ravish: (hort.) to cause to grow or ripen rapidly: to compel one's partner at whist to trump a trick by leading a card of a suit of which he has none: to make a player play so as to reveal the strength of his hand.—v.i. to strive: to hesitate.—p. and adj. Forced accomplished by great effort as a forced march: strained excessive unnatural.—n. Forc′edness the state of being forced: distortion.—adj. Force′ful full of force or might: driven or acting with power: impetuous.—adv. Force′fully.—adj. Force′less weak.—ns. Force′-pump Forc′ing-pump a pump which delivers the water under pressure through a side-pipe; Forc′er the person or thing that forces esp. the piston of a force-pump.—adj. Forc′ible active: impetuous: done by force: efficacious: impressive.—adj. and n. Forc′ible-fee′ble striving to look strong while really weak.—n. Forc′ibleness.—adv. Forc′ibly.—ns. Forc′ing (hort.) the art of hastening the growth of plants; Forc′ing-house a hothouse for forcing plants; Forc′ing-pit a frame sunk in the ground over a hotbed for forcing plants.—Force and fear (Scot.) that amount of constraint or compulsion which is enough to annul an engagement or obligation entered into under its influence; Force the pace to keep the speed up to a high pitch by emulation with one not competing for a place: to hasten unduly or by any expedient; Forcible detainer and entry detaining property or forcing an entry into it by violence or intimidation.

v.t. (cook.) to stuff as a fowl.—n. Force′meat meat chopped fine and highly seasoned used as a stuffing or alone.

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