force

Definitions

1. 1transitive verb

   To stuff; to lard; to farce.

2. 2noun

   A waterfall; a cascade.

3. 3noun

   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.

4. 4noun

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

5. 5noun

   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.

6. 6noun

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

7. 7noun

   Validity; efficacy.

8. 8noun

   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.

9. 9noun

   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.

10. 10noun

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

11. 11noun

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

12. 12noun

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

13. 13noun

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

14. 14noun

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

15. 15noun

    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.

16. 16noun

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

17. 17noun

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

18. 18noun

    To allow the force of; to value; to care for.

19. 19intransitive verb

    To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.

20. 20intransitive verb

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

21. 21intransitive verb

    To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.

22. 22noun

    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

    "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force"

23. 23noun

    an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

    "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"

    Synonyms

    violence
24. 24noun

    (of a law) having legal validity

    "the law is still in effect"

    Synonyms

    effect
25. 25noun

    physical energy or intensity

    "he hit with all the force he could muster"

    "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"

    Synonyms

    forcefulnessstrength
26. 26noun

    a powerful effect or influence

    "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"

27. 27noun

    a unit that is part of some military service

    "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"

28. 28noun

    a group of people having the power of effective action

    "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"

29. 29noun

    group of people willing to obey orders

    "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"

    Synonyms

    personnel
30. 30noun

    one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

    "the mysterious presence of an evil power"

    "may the force be with you"

    Synonyms

    power
31. 31noun

    (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

    "force equals mass times acceleration"

32. 32verb

    impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

    "She forced her diet fads on him"

    Synonyms

    thrust
33. 33verb

    do forcibly; exert force

    "Don't force it!"

34. 34verb

    cause to move by pulling

    "draw a wagon"

    "pull a sled"

    Synonyms

    drawpull
35. 35verb

    force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

    "She rammed her mind into focus"

    "He drives me mad"

    Synonyms

    driveram
36. 36verb

    squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

    "I squeezed myself into the corner"

    Synonyms

    squeezewedge
37. 37verb

    take by force

    "Storm the fort"

    Synonyms

    storm
38. 38verb

    urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

    Synonyms

    impel
39. 39verb

    move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"

    Synonyms

    push
40. 40verb

    to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"

    "He squeezed her for information"

    Synonyms

    coercehalepressuresqueeze