Meaning & Definition of Force in English

1. A powerful effect or influence

• "The force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"

2. (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

• "Force equals mass times acceleration"

3. 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"

4. Group of people willing to obey orders

• "A public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"

5. A unit that is part of some military service

• "He sent caesar a force of six thousand men"

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"

7. 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"

8. A group of people having the power of effective action

• "He joined forces with a band of adventurers"

9. (of a law) having legal validity

• "The law is still in effect"

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"

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"

• "He squeezed her for information"

2. Urge or force (a person) to an action

• Constrain or motivate

3. Move with force, "he pushed the table into a corner"

4. Impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

• "She forced her diet fads on him"

5. Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

• "I squeezed myself into the corner"

6. Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

• "She rammed her mind into focus"

• "He drives me mad"

7. Cause to move by pulling

• "Draw a wagon"

• "Pull a sled"

8. Do forcibly

• Exert force

• "Don't force it!"

9. Take by force

• "Storm the fort"