What does force mean?
Definitions for force
fɔrs, foʊrsforce
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word force.
Princeton's WordNet
forcenoun
a powerful effect or influence
"the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"
forcenoun
(physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
"force equals mass times acceleration"
force, forcefulness, strengthnoun
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"
force, personnelnoun
group of people willing to obey orders
"a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"
military unit, military force, military group, forcenoun
a unit that is part of some military service
"he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"
violence, forcenoun
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"
power, forcenoun
one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
"the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil"
forcenoun
a group of people having the power of effective action
"he joined forces with a band of adventurers"
effect, forcenoun
(of a law) having legal validity
"the law is still in effect"
force out, force-out, force play, forceverb
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"
coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, forceverb
to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"
"He squeezed her for information"
impel, forceverb
urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
push, forceverb
move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"
force, thrustverb
impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
"She forced her diet fads on him"
wedge, squeeze, forceverb
squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
"I squeezed myself into the corner"
force, drive, ramverb
force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
"She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
pull, draw, forceverb
cause to move by pulling
"draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"
forceverb
do forcibly; exert force
"Don't force it!"
storm, forceverb
take by force
"Storm the fort"
Wiktionary
Forcenoun
Falls.
Etymology: From fors. Cognate with Swedish fors
Webster Dictionary
Forceverb
to stuff; to lard; to farce
Forcenoun
a waterfall; a cascade
Forcenoun
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
Forcenoun
power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion
Forcenoun
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
Forcenoun
strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence
Forcenoun
validity; efficacy
Forcenoun
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
Forcenoun
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
Forcenoun
to compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind
Forcenoun
to do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon
Forcenoun
to obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress
Forcenoun
to impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc
Forcenoun
to put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce
Forcenoun
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 consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits
Forcenoun
to compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none
Forcenoun
to provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison
Forcenoun
to allow the force of; to value; to care for
Forceverb
to use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor
Forceverb
to make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard
Forceverb
to be of force, importance, or weight; to matter
Etymology: [See Farce to stuff.]
Freebase
Force
In physics, a force is any influence that causes an object to undergo a certain change, either concerning its movement, direction, or geometrical construction. In other words, a force can cause an object with mass to change its velocity, i.e., to accelerate, or a flexible object to deform, or both. Force can also be described by intuitive concepts such as a push or a pull. A force has both magnitude and direction, making it a vector quantity. It is measured in the SI unit of newtons and represented by the symbol F. The original form of Newton's second law states that the net force acting upon an object is equal to the rate at which its momentum changes with time. If the mass of the object is constant, this law implies that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on the object, is in the direction of the net force, and is inversely proportional to the mass of the object. As a formula, this is expressed as: where the arrows imply a vector quantity possessing both magnitude and direction. Related concepts to force include: thrust, which increases the velocity of an object; drag, which decreases the velocity of an object; and torque which produces changes in rotational speed of an object. In an extended body, each part usually applies forces on the adjacent parts; the distribution of such forces through the body is the so-called mechanical stress. Pressure is a simple type of stress. Stress usually causes deformation of solid materials, or flow in fluids.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Force
fōrs, Foss, fos, n. a waterfall. [Ice. foss, fors.]
Force
fōrs, v.t. (cook.) to stuff, as a fowl.—n. Force′meat, meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, used as a stuffing or alone. [A corr. of farce.]
The Standard Electrical Dictionary
Force
Force may be variously defined. (a) Any cause of change of the condition of matter with respect to motion or rest. (b) A measurable action upon a body under which the state of rest of that body, or its state of uniform motion in a straight line, suffers change. (c) It may be defined by its measurement as the rate of change of momentum, or (d) as the rate at which work is done per unit of space traversed. Force is measured by the acceleration or change of motion it can impart to a body of unit mass in a unit of time, or, calling force, F, mass, m acceleration per second a we have F = m a. The dimensions of force are mass (M) * acceleration (L/(T^2)) = (M*L)/(T^2).
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
force
1. An aggregation of military personnel, weapon systems, equipment, and necessary support, or combination thereof. 2. A major subdivision of a fleet.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
force
A term which implies the sudden rush of water through a narrow rocky channel, and accompanied by a fall of the surface after the obstacle is passed. It is synonymous with fall. Also, the force of each ship stated agreeably to the old usage in the navy, according to the number of guns actually carried. In these days of iron-clads, turret-ships, and heavy guns, this does not give a true estimate of a ship's force. Also, the general force, ships, men, soldiers, &c., engaged in any expedition; as expeditionary force.--Also, force of wind, now described by numbers, 0 being calm, 12 the heaviest gale.--To force, is to take by storm; to force a passage by driving back the enemy.--Colloquially, no force--gently.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
force
In its military application, signifies an army of all branches,—artillery, cavalry, and infantry. It is sometimes used in the plural number, but with the same signification; as, “commander of the forces;” and occasionally we find the word used in another sense, thus, “He is in great force.” To force, in broadsword exercise, is to break an adversary’s sword-guard, and either wound him or expose him to a wound.
force
To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress. Also to impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
force
To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to garrison.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'force' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #701
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'force' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1430
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'force' in Nouns Frequency: #120
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'force' in Verbs Frequency: #201
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of force in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of force in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of force in a Sentence
I know nothing about an Air Force plane landing at an airport( which I do not own and have nothing to do with) near Turnberry Resort( which I do own) in Scotland, and filling up with fuel, with the crew staying overnight at Turnberry( they have good taste !) , nOTHING TO DO WITH ME.
There's a reason the Obama administration and The Trump administration, at least before this point, never made such audacious legal claims. The assertion that Congress has authorized the executive branch to use force against Iran is unsound. A bipartisan majority of both houses of Congress have rejected that view in just the past few weeks through congressional findings, the administration's position is dangerous. It holds Iran directly responsible for abuses committed by armed groups under a new-fangled theory that United States would not want to see applied to our support for armed forces including the Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen and the Syrian Kurdish forces' treatment of detainees.
There just seem to be a lot of factors that are affecting people's employment and labor force decisions now.
What we are always trying to do is to minimize the risk to our force and to accomplishment of the missions, so training and rehearsing for these things is extraordinarily important for us, after we've gone through all the processes of briefing our leadership and gaining the appropriate approvals, then it's about precise execution. And an expectation that our people are going to do what they've been trained to do.
The market needs to stop worrying about this balance and concentrate on the now, we rallied on the back of supply outages, wildfires and seemingly increased demand. Well, Shell have lifted force majeure at (Nigeria's) Bonny ... the wildfires are out and Canada is close to full production, and (U.S.) gasoline demand is at 15-month lows.
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Translations for force
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- kragAfrikaans
- قوة, أجبر, اضطرArabic
- বলAssamese
- qüvvəAzerbaijani
- көс, ғәмәл, ҡеүәтBashkir
- сила, действие, насилие, войска, принуждавам, заставям, насилвамBulgarian
- বলBengali
- forçaCatalan, Valencian
- forzaCorsican
- síla, přinutit, nutitCzech
- grymWelsh
- kraft, styrke, magt, fremtvinge, tvingeDanish
- Gewalt, Kraft, Kräfte, erzwingen, zwingenGerman
- κύρος, βία, δύναμη, ισχύς, σθένος, σώμαGreek
- forto, perforto, devigiEsperanto
- fuerza, forzar, obligarSpanish
- indarBasque
- نیروPersian
- voima, väkivalta, valta, pakottaaFinnish
- force, forces, pouvoir, truc, forcer, contraindre, ObligerFrench
- cumhachdScottish Gaelic
- બળGujarati
- כחHebrew
- ज़ोर, बलHindi
- ուժ, ուժեր, զորություն, զինված ուժեր, ստիպել, հարկադրել, բռնանալArmenian
- gayaIndonesian
- forco, vigoro, mov-energio, violento, koakto, trupiIdo
- forza, forzareItalian
- 力, 強いるJapanese
- ꦝꦪJavanese
- күшKazakh
- 힘, 포스Korean
- fortitudo, vis, potentia, obligo, cōgōLatin
- jėga, galia, priversti, verstiLithuanian
- spēks, vara, piespiestLatvian
- mahatonga, maneryMalagasy
- tōpanaMāori
- сила, моќ, насилство, полноважност, присилува, принудува, тера, силиMacedonian
- ശക്തി, ബലംMalayalam
- хүчMongolian
- बळMarathi
- dayaMalay
- macht, troep, truc, kracht, geweld, dwingen, forceren, overweldigen, afdwingen, brandenDutch
- kraft, styrke, tvang, tvinge, påtvingeNorwegian
- fòrçaOccitan
- siła, moc, siły, zmusićPolish
- força, validade, obrigar, compelir, forçarPortuguese
- kallpaQuechua
- forzaRomansh
- forță, violenta, supuneRomanian
- мощь, отряд, сила, насилие, дурь, власть, заставить, принуждать, заставлять, принудитьRussian
- परस्परक्रियाSanskrit
- බලයSinhala, Sinhalese
- silaSlovak
- silaSlovene
- manikidzoShona
- ᮌᮚSundanese
- kraft, styrka, tvingaSwedish
- mabavuSwahili
- படைTamil
- แรงThai
- isigTagalog
- zorlamak, kuvvetTurkish
- міць, загін, змусити, муситиUkrainian
- زورUrdu
- kuchUzbek
- lựcVietnamese
- ipáYoruba
- 力量Chinese
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