Force
[fɔːs] or [fɔrs]
Definition
(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'.
Edited by Cary--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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
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Definition
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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Examples
- And the very force of her will brought her round. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Thence he pushed on to Waynesboro', where he found the enemy in force in an intrenched position, under General Early. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A large force of railroad men have already been sent to Beaufort, and other mechanics will go to Fort Fisher in a day or two. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Thus the enemy, with a vastly superior force, was strongly fortified to the east, south, and west, and commanded the river below. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- General Sherman, leaving a force to hold Atlanta, with the remainder of his army fell upon him and drove him to Gadsden, Alabama. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I cannot but in some sense admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse by the following considerations. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The let-alone policy had demoralized this force so that probably but little more than one-half of it was ever present in garrison at any one time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Then Prussia declared war in support of Austria, and the allied forces, under the Duke of Brunswick, prepared to invade France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But even thus early the stronger love of mechanical processes and of probing natural forces manifested itself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was as if they met in exile, and united their solitary forces against all the world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Nations with a glorious past as to bravery but with a poor armament have gone down suddenly before smaller forces armed with modern ordnance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He had the faith of the one, the doubt of the other, and, drawn strongly either way by these opposing forces, paused irresolutely between the two. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A heavy wood intervened between this work and the National forces. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A cause traces the way to our thought, and in a manner forces us to survey such certain objects, in such certain relations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Why, the man was weary of you, and would have jilted you, but that Dobbin forced him to keep his word. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I had heard that very voice ere this, and compulsory observation had forced on me a theory as to what it boded. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Bean for a sewing machine in which the needle was stationary, and the cloth was gathered in crimps or folds and forced over the stationary needle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He brought out his sentences in short violent jerks, as though they were forced up from a deep inner crater of indignation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- That I'm forced to do, said Caleb, still more gently, lifting up his hand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She must be persuaded to tell us, or she must be forced to tell us, on what grounds she bases her belief that you took the Moonstone. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- To me, you brought it; on me, you forced it; and the bottom of this raging sea,' striking himself upon the breast, 'has been heaved up ever since. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Somebody, I says, is forcing of a door, or window; what's to be done? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Is that not rather a hot-house forcing style? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The smoke from the fire was forcing me further and further back down the corridor toward the waters which I could hear surging through the darkness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- And yet most of us accept as a matter of course the stream which gushes from our faucet, or give no thought to the ingenuity which devised a means of forcing water upward through pipes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But all mines must be ventilated by forcing air through them with a fan, and this air must be in sufficient quantity to keep the percentage of gas below a dangerous standard. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The three rushed me with the evident purpose of forcing me back the few steps that would carry my body over the rail into the void below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Cities situated in plains and remote from mountains are obliged to utilize the water of such streams as flow through the land, forcing it to the necessary height by means of pumps. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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