force
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English force, fors, forse, from Old French force, from Late Latin fortia, a noun derived from the neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).
Inflected forms:
form: forces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: forces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: forcing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: forced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: forced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: force
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: force
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: forced
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: force
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: forcest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: forced
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: forcedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: forces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: forceth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: forced
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: force
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: forced
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: force
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: forced
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: force
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: forcing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: forced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the force of an appeal, an argument, or a contract
show of force
He was, in the full force of the words, a good man.
After his actions were challenged by foreign governments and Parliament initially tried to put a stop to his action, Denman returned home and argued his case with enough force that, by 1848, the Royal Navy was handed active permission and encouragement to raze every last slave factory they could find to the ground, and full authority to stop any ship, of any flag, that was thought to be a slaver, with a guarantee with^([sic]) no censure from the government.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Torque is the rotational version of force.
Force is the result of fundamental interactions.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Most physicists deem there to be four fundamental forces: the weak force, the strong force, gravitation, and the electromagnetic force.
fictitious forces
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
countable
humorous
often
uncountable
examples: The Europeans tried, my goodness how they tried. But on the day the US proved too strong and too inspired. They were, dammit, just better. And when Leonard's putt dropped they clearly had the force with them as well.
The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.
Two forces acting upon the same point on an object will cancel out only if they have equal magnitude and opposite directions.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: possibly
proscribed
uncountable
examples: Heavier objects are those that are subject to more gravitational force.
gloss: Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something that exerts influence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: force of nature
gloss: Something that exerts influence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I believe that the main long-term force that guides a society's evolution is not the economy or the leaders, but the culture.
Some skeptics have attributed changing temperatures to forces out of our control, such as axial procession.
market forces
gloss: Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: which now they hold by force, and not by right
gloss: Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A group organized for the goal of attacking, controlling, or constraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: air force; police force
Force Z
Is Lucius general of the forces?
"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.[…]."
For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.
gloss: A group organized for the goal of attacking, controlling, or constraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A group organized for the goal of attacking, controlling, or constraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural
singular
uncountable
examples: After only a week, Japanese forces had captured Singapore from the British.
reinforcements grew the American force in the area to 9,000
Roman forces were
gloss: A group organized for the goal of attacking, controlling, or constraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural
singular
uncountable
usually
with-definite-article
examples: Q. All the time that he was on the force?
A. I cannot say that; but there were men on with me when I was on the force who were very good Republicans.
Q. During all this time you have been on the police force?
Some of those that work forces / Are the same that burn crosses
Niall was on the force, too, a detective in major crimes.
gloss: The state of having legal weight, of being legally valid,.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The law will come into force in January.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When the aspectual force of the verbal categories weakens, the 'terminative', punctual or determinative value of the prefix gains in importance,...
gloss: The annualized instantaneous rate of change at a particular timepoint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: force of mortality
gloss: To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
The second problem is the economy, the shocking state of which has forced the decision to apply to the EU.
Housebuilders had warned that the higher costs involved would have forced them to build fewer homes and priced many homebuyers out of the market.
The hourly Southampton to London Victoria service via Horsham has been axed, as has the direct Littlehampton-Bognor Regis service, forcing passengers to change [trains] at Barnham.
gloss: To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Shall wee force the general law of nature, which in all living creatures under heaven is seene to tremble at paine?
gloss: To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay / That scarce the victor forced the steel away.
to force the tyrant from his seat by war
Ethelbert […]ordered that none should be forced into religion.
In a groundbreaking move, the Pentagon is compensating servicemen seriously hurt when an American tank convoy forced them off the road.
gloss: To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The comedian's jokes weren't funny, but I forced a laugh now and then.
Janet Tobacman of Woman Organized for Reproductive Choice (WORC) in Chicago and New Jewish Agenda stated, "R2N2 needs omre discussion and action around sexuality in general," forcing a concern that had little discussion throughout the conference.
gloss: To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I forgot my keys in and so we had to force (open) the door.
gloss: To violate (a woman); to rape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For yf ye were suche fyfty as ye be / ye were not able to make resystence ageynst this deuyl / here lyeth a duchesse deede the whiche was the fayrest of alle the world wyf to syre Howel / duc of Bretayne / he hath murthred her in forcynge her / and has slytte her vnto the nauyl
a young woman not farre from mee had headlong cast her selfe out of a high window, with intent to kill herselfe, only to avoid the ravishment of a rascally-base souldier that lay in her house, who offered to force her[…].
gloss: To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
reflexive
examples: And I pray you for my sake to force yourselff there, that men may speke you worshyp.
gloss: To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
pos: verb
gloss: To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Jones forced the runner at second by stepping on the bag.
gloss: To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
pos: verb
gloss: To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: VVhat can the Church force more?
gloss: To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: Were they not forc’d with thoſe that ſhould be ours, / We might haue met them darefull, beard to beard, / And beate them backward home.
gloss: To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: For me, I force not argument a straw.
gloss: To grow (rhubarb) in the dark, causing it to grow early.
pos: verb
Related words: newton
Derived words: accelerating force
Ampère's force law
antiforce
atomic force microscope
atomic force microscopy
behavioral force
biteforce
blue force
brakeforce
brute-force
by force of
Casimir force
color force
colour force
come into force
coming into force
constructive force
counterforce
cyberforce
downforce
driving force
electromagnetic force
electromotive force
electrostatic force
field of force
force diagram
force feed
forcefeed
force-feed
force-field
force field
force in
force justified
forceless
forcely
force majeure
forcement
force multiplier
forceness
force of habit
force of nature
force of will
forceout
force-out
force pair
forceplate
force play
force pump
force-put
force-ripe
forceshield
force to be reckoned with
forcewide
forcite
four-force
general of the air force
g force
gravitational force
ground mobile force
in force
in full force
interforce
intermolecular force
jobforce
job force
kilogram-force
labor force
labour force
life-force
life force
line of force
Lorentz force
magnetomotive force
masticatory force
may the force be with you
may the Force be with you
microforce
moment of force
net force
normal force
nuclear force
overforce
pinch force
Planck force
pound-force
pressure gradient force
pseudo-force
pseudo force
quadriforce
reconnaissance in force
red force
reduction in force
sales force
salesforce
semiforce
spaceforce
space force
strikeforce
strike force
strong force
strong nuclear force
superforce
support force
task-force
tidal force
toon force
triforce
Trump Force One
unforce
United States Space Force
upforce
van der Waals force
vital force
weak force
weak nuclear force
will-force
workforce
work force
action-forcing
enforce
force down someone's throat
forceful
force one's way
force out
force quit
force someone's back to the wall
force someone's hand
force the pace
force the voucher
forcible
love cannot be forced
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: voima
lang: Finnish
word: voimakeinot
lang: Finnish
word: pakko
lang: Finnish
word: pakottaminen
lang: Finnish
word: pakkokeinot
lang: Ancient Greek
word: βία
roman: bía
lang: Hungarian
word: erőszak
lang: Hungarian
word: kényszer
lang: Hungarian
word: kényszerítés
lang: Irish
word: fórsa
lang: Japanese
word: 強制
roman: kyōsei
lang: Central Kurdish
word: زەبر
roman: zebir
lang: Marathi
word: जबरदस्ती
roman: jabardastī
lang: Old English
word: nīed
lang: Russian
word: сила
roman: sila
lang: Sanskrit
word: रभस्
roman: rabhas
lang: Slovak
word: sila
lang: Spanish
word: fuerza
lang: Afrikaans
word: krag
lang: Albanian
word: fuqi
lang: Arabic
word: قُوَّة
roman: quwwa
lang: Armenian
word: ուժ
roman: už
lang: Assamese
word: বল
roman: bol
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qüvvə
lang: Bashkir
word: көс
roman: kös
lang: Basque
word: indar
lang: Bengali
word: বল
roman: bol
lang: Bhojpuri
word: जोर
roman: jōr
lang: Bulgarian
word: сила
roman: sila
lang: Catalan
word: força
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 力
roman: li̍t
lang: Chinese
word: 力
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Corsican
word: forza
lang: Czech
word: síla
lang: Danish
word: kraft
lang: Dutch
word: kracht
lang: Fiji Hindi
word: taagat
lang: Finnish
word: voima
lang: French
word: force
lang: Friulian
word: fuarce
lang: Galician
word: forza
lang: Georgian
word: ძალა
roman: ʒala
lang: German
word: Kraft
lang: Greek
word: δύναμη
roman: dýnami
lang: Gujarati
word: બળ
roman: baḷ
lang: Hebrew
word: כוח
lang: Higaonon
word: kusug
lang: Hindi
word: बल
roman: bal
lang: Hungarian
word: erő
lang: Hungarian
word: erősség
lang: Ido
word: forco
lang: Ido
word: vigoro
lang: Indonesian
word: gaya
lang: Indonesian
word: kakas
lang: Indonesian
word: forsa
lang: Interlingua
word: fortia
lang: Irish
word: fórsa
lang: Istriot
word: forsa
lang: Italian
word: forza
lang: Japanese
word: 力
roman: chikara
lang: Javanese
word: ꦝꦪ
roman: daya
lang: Karakalpak
word: kúsh
lang: Kazakh
word: күш
roman: küş
lang: Korean
word: 힘
roman: him
lang: Kyrgyz
word: күч
roman: küc
lang: Ladin
word: forza
lang: Latin
word: vis
lang: Latin
word: potentia
lang: Latvian
word: spēks
lang: Lithuanian
word: galia
lang: Lithuanian
word: jėga
lang: Macedonian
word: сила
roman: sila
lang: Malay
word: daya
lang: Malayalam
word: ബലം
roman: balaṁ
lang: Māori
word: tōpana
lang: Marathi
word: बळ
roman: baḷ
lang: Mongolian
word: хүч
roman: xüč
lang: Neapolitan
word: fuorza
lang: Newar
word: तिबः
roman: tiba:
lang: Norwegian
word: kraft
lang: Occitan
word: fòrça
lang: Persian
word: نیرو
roman: niru
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Krauft
lang: Polish
word: siła
lang: Portuguese
word: força
lang: Quechua
word: kallpa
lang: Romanian
word: forță
lang: Romansh
word: forza
lang: Russian
word: си́ла
roman: síla
lang: Sanskrit
word: परस्परक्रिया
roman: parasparakriyā
lang: Shona
word: manikidzo
lang: Sicilian
word: forza
lang: Sinhalese
word: බලය
roman: balaya
lang: Slovak
word: sila
lang: Slovene
word: sila
lang: Spanish
word: fuerza
lang: Sundanese
word: gaya
lang: Swedish
word: kraft
lang: Tagalog
word: isig
lang: Tagalog
word: puwersa
lang: Thai
word: แรง
roman: rɛɛng
lang: Turkish
word: kuvvet
lang: Ukrainian
word: си́ла
roman: sýla
lang: Uzbek
word: kuch
lang: Venetan
word: forsa
lang: Venetan
word: força
lang: Vietnamese
word: lực
lang: Walloon
word: foice
lang: Waray-Waray
word: kusog
lang: Welsh
word: grym
lang: Yoruba
word: ipá
lang: Armenian
word: ուժեր
roman: užer
lang: Armenian
word: զինված ուժեր
roman: zinvac užer
lang: Bashkir
word: көс
roman: kös
lang: Bulgarian
word: войска
roman: vojska
lang: Danish
word: styrke
lang: Dutch
word: macht
lang: Dutch
word: troep
lang: Finnish
word: voimat
lang: Finnish
word: joukot
lang: French
word: forces
lang: Georgian
word: ძალა
roman: ʒala
lang: German
word: Kräfte
lang: Greek
word: δύναμη
roman: dýnami
lang: Greek
word: σώμα
roman: sóma
lang: Hebrew
word: כח
lang: Hindi
word: बल
roman: bal
lang: Hungarian
word: erő
lang: Hungarian
word: osztag
lang: Hungarian
word: sereg
lang: Hungarian
word: különítmény
lang: Hungarian
word: haderő
lang: Hungarian
word: hadsereg
lang: Hungarian
word: csapat
lang: Hungarian
word: egység
lang: Ido
word: trupi
lang: Irish
word: fórsa
lang: Italian
word: forza
lang: Japanese
word: 勢力
roman: seiryoku
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ھێز
roman: hêz
lang: Latin
word: vis
lang: Latin
word: potentia
lang: Macedonian
word: сила
roman: sila
lang: Marathi
word: प्रबळ गट
roman: prabaḷ gaṭ
lang: Norwegian
word: styrke
lang: Polish
word: siły
lang: Portuguese
word: força
lang: Russian
word: отря́д
roman: otrjád
lang: Slovak
word: sila
lang: Swedish
word: styrka
lang: Turkish
word: zorlamak
lang: Ukrainian
word: загі́н
roman: zahín
lang: Vietnamese
word: lực lượng
lang: Walloon
word: foice
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡеүәт
roman: qewət
lang: Bashkir
word: көс
roman: kös
lang: Bulgarian
word: сила
roman: sila
lang: Danish
word: magt
lang: Dutch
word: macht
lang: Esperanto
word: forto
lang: Finnish
word: valta
lang: Finnish
word: voima
lang: French
word: pouvoir
lang: Georgian
word: ძალა
roman: ʒala
lang: Georgian
word: ღონე
roman: ɣone
lang: German
word: Kraft
lang: Hungarian
word: erő
lang: Hungarian
word: hatalom
lang: Hungarian
word: képesség
lang: Ido
word: mov-energio
lang: Macedonian
word: сила
roman: sila
lang: Marathi
word: बळ
roman: baḷ
lang: Norwegian
word: styrke
lang: Polish
word: siła
lang: Portuguese
word: força
lang: Russian
word: си́ла
roman: síla
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cumhachd
lang: Slovak
word: sila
lang: Ukrainian
word: си́ла
roman: sýla
lang: Finnish
word: pakottaa