Etymology : Middle English, from Middle French, from Vulgar Latin fortia, from Latin fortis strong
Pronunciation : 'fOrs, 'fors
Function : noun
Date : 14th century
1. power; strength; intensity; military power; coercion; violence; authority; need, necessity; binding power, effect (of a law). bring about through the use of power; impose; compel; oblige; break through, push through; artificially increase the rate of growth (of plants, etc.). Next >>.
2. To stuff; to lard; to farce.
3. A waterfall; a cascade.
4. 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.
5. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
6. 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.
7. Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
8. Validity; efficacy.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
12. To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one's will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
13. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
14. To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
15. To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
16. 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 conceit or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
17. To compel to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
18. To provide with forces; to reënforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
19. To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
20. To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
21. To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
22. To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter. 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" a powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them" a group of people having the power of effective action; "he joined forces with a band of adventurers" group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens" the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration" impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him" do forcibly; exert force; "Don't force it!" force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad".
23. 1. If someone forces you to do something, they make you do it even though you do not want to, for example by threatening you. He was forced to resign by Russia's conservative parliament I cannot force you in this. You must decide They were grabbed by three men who appeared to force them into a car.
24. If a situation or event forces you to do something, it makes it necessary for you to do something that you would not otherwise have done. A back injury forced her to withdraw from Wimbledon He turned right, down a dirt road that forced him into four-wheel drive She finally was forced to the conclusion that she wouldn't get another paid job in her field.
25. If someone forces something on or upon you, they make you accept or use it when you would prefer not to. To force this agreement on the nation is wrong. = impose.
26. If you force something into a particular position, you use a lot of strength to make it move there. They were forcing her head under the icy waters, drowning her.
27. If someone forces a lock, a door, or a window, they break the lock or fastening in order to get into a building without using a key. That evening police forced the door of the flat and arrested Mr Roberts He tried to force the window open but it was jammed shut.
28. If someone uses force to do something, or if it is done by force, strong and violent physical action is taken in order to achieve it. The government decided against using force to break-up the demonstrations. the guerrillas' efforts to seize power by force.
29. Force is the power or strength which something has. The force of the explosion shattered the windows of several buildings.
30. If you refer to someone or something as a force in a particular type of activity, you mean that they have a strong influence on it. For years the army was the most powerful political force in the country One of the driving forces behind this recent expansion is the growth of services.
31. The force of something is the powerful effect or quality that it has. He changed our world through the force of his ideas.
32. You can use forces to refer to processes and events that do not appear to be caused by human beings, and are therefore difficult to understand or control. the protection of mankind against the forces of nature: epidemics, predators, floods, hurricanes The principle of market forces was applied to some of the countries most revered institutions.
33. In physics, a force is the pulling or pushing effect that something has on something else. the earth's gravitational force. protons and electrons trapped by magnetic forces in the Van Allen belts.
34. Force is used before a number to indicate a wind of a particular speed or strength, especially a very strong wind. Northerly winds will increase to force six by midday.
35. If you force a smile or a laugh, you manage to smile or laugh, but with an effort because you are unhappy. Joe forced a smile, but underneath he was a little disturbed `Why don't you offer me a drink?' he asked, with a forced smile.
36. Forces are groups of soldiers or military vehicles that are organized for a particular purpose. the deployment of American forces in the region.
37. The forces means the army, the navy, or the air force, or all three. The more senior you become in the forces, the more likely you are to end up in a desk job.
38. The force is sometimes used to mean the police force. It was hard for a police officer to make friends outside the force. see also:
air force, armed forces, labour force, peacekeeping, task force, tour de force, workforce.
39. If you do something from force of habit, you do it because you have always done it in the past, rather than because you have thought carefully about it. Unconsciously, by force of habit, she plugged the coffee pot in.
40. A law, rule, or system that is in force exists or is being used. Although the new tax is already in force, you have until November to lodge an appeal.
41. When people do something in force, they do it in large numbers. Voters turned out in force for their first taste of multi-party elections.
42. If you join forces with someone, you work together in order to achieve a common aim or purpose. William joined forces with businessman Nicholas Court to launch the new vehicle.
43. If you force your way through or into somewhere, you have to push or break things that are in your way in order to get there. The miners were armed with clubs as they forced their way through a police cordon He forced his way into a house shouting for help.
44. to force someone's hand: see:
hand. Action that tends to maintain or alter the position of a body or to distort it. It is a vector quantity, having both magnitude and direction. Force is commonly explained in terms of Newton's laws of motion. All known natural forces can be traced to the fundamental interactions. Force is measured in newtons (N); a force of 1 N will accelerate a mass of 1 kg at a rate of 1 m/sec/sec. See also centrifugal force; Coriolis force; electromagnetic force; electric force; magnetic force; strong force; weak force. air force British Expeditionary Force centrifugal force Coriolis force electric force Coulomb force electromagnetic force electromotive force Force Acts magnetic force Royal Air Force Self Defense Force strong force strong nuclear force United States Air Force United States Air Force Academy weak force weak nuclear force Special Forces van der Waals forces.
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