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Force   /fɔrs/   Listen
Force

noun
1.
A powerful effect or influence.
2.
(physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity.
3.
Physical energy or intensity.  Synonyms: forcefulness, strength.  "It was destroyed by the strength of the gale" , "A government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"
4.
Group of people willing to obey orders.  Synonym: personnel.
5.
A unit that is part of some military service.  Synonyms: military force, military group, military unit.
6.
An act of aggression (as one against a person who resists).  Synonym: violence.
7.
One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority.  Synonym: power.  "May the force be with you" , "The forces of evil"
8.
A group of people having the power of effective action.
9.
(of a law) having legal validity.  Synonym: effect.
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.  Synonyms: force-out, force out, force play.
verb
(past & past part. forced; pres. part. forcing)
1.
To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :.  Synonyms: coerce, hale, pressure, squeeze.  "He squeezed her for information"
2.
Urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate.  Synonym: impel.
3.
Move with force,.  Synonym: push.
4.
Impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably.  Synonym: thrust.
5.
Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space.  Synonyms: squeeze, wedge.
6.
Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.  Synonyms: drive, ram.  "He drives me mad"
7.
Cause to move by pulling.  Synonyms: draw, pull.  "Pull a sled"
8.
Do forcibly; exert force.
9.
Take by force.  Synonym: storm.



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"Force" Quotes from Famous Books



... if possible, a nobler work still, a nobler work than if they were queens or empresses, because they have taken up the Cross and followed Christ; because they are not seeking their own good, but the good of others. And if we will not learn it from those glorious examples, God will force us to learn it, I trust, every one of us, by sorrow and disappointment. Ah, my friends, might one not learn it at once, if one would but open one's eyes and look at things as they are? Every one is longing for something; each has his little plan for himself, of what ...
— Sermons for the Times • Charles Kingsley

... heavens; the beauties of the field vanish away beneath the clouds, most like unto the wind when it riseth loud before men, roameth amid the clouds, courseth along in wrath, and then on a sudden 1275 becometh still, close shut in its narrow prison, crushed by force. ...
— The Elene of Cynewulf • Cynewulf

... widened into a small lake, and here the wind struck her in the face with such force that her weight was taken from the strap, and Kazan dragged the sledge alone. A few inches of snow impeded her as much as a foot had done before. Little by little she dropped back. Kazan forged to her side, every ounce of his magnificent strength ...
— Kazan • James Oliver Curwood

... handing out bouquets. "And would you run down to Tolness and settle up that infernal commission of inquiry? They've been asking questions in the House, and I can give no very definite reply. Solebury threatened to force a division when the vote came up. Undoubtedly there's been a great deal of extravagance, but you may be able ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace

... am," snorted Maude, "and nobody goes out to bring me a private bath, I take notice. Get up here and eat something, you rat! Do you want us to force it ...
— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon


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