force
noun
1. a powerful effect or influence
- the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them
Definition categories: attribute, influence
2. (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- force equals mass times acceleration
Definition categories: phenomenon
3. physical energy or intensity
- he hit with all the force he could muster
- a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man
Similar word(s): forcefulness, strength
Definition categories: attribute, intensity, intensiveness
4. group of people willing to obey orders
- a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens
Similar word(s): personnel
Definition categories: group, organisation, organization
5. a unit that is part of some military service
- he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men
Definition categories: group, unit
6. 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
Similar word(s): violence
Definition categories: act, aggression, hostility
7. one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- may the force be with you
- the forces of evil
Similar word(s): power
Definition categories: person, cause
8. a group of people having the power of effective action
- he joined forces with a band of adventurers
Definition categories: group
9. (of a law) having legal validity
Similar word(s): effect
Definition categories: attribute, validity, validness
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
- the shortstop got the runner at second on a force
Definition categories: act, putout
Sentences with force as a noun:
- the force of an appeal, an argument, or a contract
- police force
- show of force
- The law will come into force in January.
verb
1. to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- She forced him to take a job in the city
Similar word(s): coerce, hale, pressure, squeeze
Definition categories: social, compel, obligate, oblige
2. urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
Similar word(s): impel
Definition categories: creation, cause, do, make
3. move with force
Similar word(s): push
Definition categories: motion, displace, move
4. impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- She forced her diet fads on him
Similar word(s): thrust
Definition categories: communication, compel, obligate, oblige
5. squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
Similar word(s): squeeze, wedge
Definition categories: contact, displace, move
6. force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
Definition categories: contact, thrust
7. do forcibly; exert force
- Don't force it!
Definition categories: contact, act, move
8. take by force
Similar word(s): storm
Definition categories: contact, penetrate, perforate
Sentences with force as a verb:
- The comedian's jokes weren't funny, but I forced a laugh now and then.
- To force a lock.
- Jones forced the runner at second by stepping on the bag.