Force

Word FORCE
Character 5
Hyphenation force
Pronunciations /fɔːs/

Definitions and meanings of "Force"

What do we mean by force?

The capacity to do work or cause physical change; energy, strength, or active power. noun

Power made operative against resistance; exertion. noun

The use of physical power or violence to compel or restrain. noun

Intellectual power or vigor, especially as conveyed in writing or speech. noun

Moral strength. noun

A capacity for affecting the mind or behavior; efficacy. noun

One that possesses such capacity. noun

A body of persons or other resources organized or available for a certain purpose. noun

A person or group capable of influential action. noun

Military strength. noun

A unit of a nation's military personnel, especially one deployed into combat. noun

A vector quantity that tends to produce an acceleration of a body in the direction of its application. Newton's second law of motion states that a free body accelerates in the direction of the applied force and that its acceleration is directly proportional to the force and inversely proportional to its mass. noun

A force play. noun

To compel through pressure or necessity. transitive verb

Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.

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

Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.

A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)

Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.

A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.

The ability to attack, control, or constrain.

A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.

Legal validity.

Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.

Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.

(with the, often capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Force

The word "force" in example sentences

In many cases it is desirable to force water considerably above the pump itself, as, for instance, in the fire hose; under such circumstances a type of pump is employed which has received the name of _force pump_. ❋ Bertha M. Clark (N/A)

The dynamical force, that which produces motion, is the centripetal force, drawing the body continually from the tangential direction, toward the center; and what is termed centrifugal force is merely the resistance which the body opposes to this deflection, _precisely like any other resistance to a force_. ❋ Various (N/A)

What we want to do is to increase the attractive force, in order to prevent this tangential motion -- to increase the _force of gravity_. ❋ P. Hampson (N/A)

At present I will proceed to consider the second of the forces, or manifestations of force, which are developed in moving bodies -- _centrifugal force_. ❋ Various (N/A)

Yet to force any of our principles upon her attention when she is in a hostile mood -- or to _force_ them, indeed, in any mood -- is to invite just this attitude. ❋ Marion Foster Washburne (N/A)

And, further, if it be true that the human will is a physical energy, we have here the discovery of a _new force_ -- a force just as new to science as magnetism or electricity -- and vastly more interesting, since it is intimately associated with all of us, and subject to our direction, guidance, and command -- a force for us to wield and manipulate -- for weal or woe! ❋ Hereward Carrington (1919)

And now we force him -- _force_ him into these intimate relations. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

The great man concentrates his force with a wave of his hand for the _tour de force_ of the year, the despatch of the Hielant train. ❋ Ian Maclaren (1878)

Regiment by a detachment of _equal force_ of the Eleventh Regiment, this force of _one company_ being now stationed at the Temiscouata post, as it _always has been_, for the necessary purpose of protecting the stores and accommodations provided for the use of Her Majesty's troops who may be required, as heretofore, to march by that route to and from the ❋ Unknown (1878)

It would appear that heat, light, electricity, sound, the cathode rays, and all other forms of force in nature are probably variations, and as it were limited expressions and manifestations, of _the one supreme force_ that supports the constitution of the physical universe; and that one supreme force is ❋ Various (1870)

When we know the strength and direction of this resultant force, we know all the properties of the field, and we can express them numerically or delineate them graphically, Faraday (Exp. Res., § 3122 _et seq. _) showed how the distribution of the forces in any electric field can be graphically depicted by drawing lines (which he called _lines of force_) whose direction at every point coincides with the direction of the resultant force at that point; and Clerk-Maxwell ❋ Various (N/A)

However delicately a machine may be constructed, with the most exquisitely contrived detents to release a weight or spring by the exertion of the smallest possible amount of force, _some_ external force will always, be required; so, in the animal machine, however minute may be the changes required in the cells or fibres of the brain, to set in motion the nerve currents which loosen or excite the pent up forces of certain muscles, _some force_ must be required to effect those changes. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)

But referring to the _resistance_ of each single case of decomposition, it would appear that as these differ in force according to the affinities by which the elements in the substance tend to retain their places, they also would supply cases constituting a series of degrees by which to measure the initial intensities of simple voltaic or other currents of electricity, and which, combined with the scale of intensities determined by different degrees of _acting force_ (909.), would probably include a sufficient set of differences to meet almost every important case where a reference to intensity would be required. ❋ Michael Faraday (1829)

* really, literally trying to force, force, force* others to live by their morality, to * force* the law to become what reflects their morality so that others must live by the same draconian rules, on so endless and hysterical a basis. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[extra info i forgot to mention:] -- jorge was flirting with me the whole time and being very nice too. everything he did was with force, a sexy sort of force. like whenever he touched me physically, it was * with force*. maybe YOU know what this sort of means? ❋ Unknown (2009)

And, how do we explicate the special force of reasons for autonomous action in practical reasoning ” a ˜force™ quite different from the motivating impact of an overmastering desire? ❋ Wilson, George (2007)

That in the dynamical sense of the term force, this is not a force at all: that it is not capable of producing motion, that the force which is really exerted on a revolving body is the centripetal force, and what we are taught to call centrifugal force is nothing but the resistance which a revolving body opposes to this force, precisely like any other resistance. ❋ Various (N/A)

David Pittelli: Whether to call Trenton "simply a raid in force" is a subjective question. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The New International Version is one of the few translations that uses the word force in this instance, whereas elsewhere in that translation, the same Hebrew word is translated as weight. ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)

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