noun
- A powerful effect or influence.
- usage: "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"
- Physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity. (
- usage: "force equals mass times acceleration"
- Physical energy or intensity.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: forcefulness, strength
- Group of people willing to obey orders.
- usage: "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"
- synonyms: personnel
- A unit that is part of some military service.
- usage: "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"
- synonyms: military unit, military force, military group
- An act of aggression (as one against a person who resists. )
- usage: "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"
- synonyms: violence
- One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority.
- usage: "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil"
- synonyms: power
- A group of people having the power of effective action.
- usage: "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"
- Of a law. ( having legal validity)
- usage: "the law is still in effect"
- synonyms: effect
- 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.
- usage: "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force"
- synonyms: force out, force-out, force play
verb
- (v.) ()
- Urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate.
- synonyms: impel
- (v.) ()
- synonyms: push
- Impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably.
- usage: "She forced her diet fads on him"
- synonyms: thrust
- Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space.
- usage: "I squeezed myself into the corner"
- Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.
- usage: "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
- Cause to move by pulling.
- usage: "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"
- Do forcibly; exert force.
- usage: "Don't force it"
- Take by force.
- usage: "Storm the fort"
- synonyms: storm