What is the meaning of force?

noun

• A powerful effect or influence.
  • usage: "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"
• Physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity. (
  • usage: "force equals mass times acceleration"
• Physical energy or intensity.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: forcefulness, strength
• Group of people willing to obey orders.
  • usage: "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"
  • synonyms: personnel
• A unit that is part of some military service.
  • usage: "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"
  • synonyms: military unit, military force, military group
• An act of aggression (as one against a person who resists. )
  • usage: "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"
  • synonyms: violence
• One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority.
  • usage: "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil"
  • synonyms: power
• A group of people having the power of effective action.
  • usage: "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"
• Of a law. ( having legal validity)
  • usage: "the law is still in effect"
  • synonyms: effect
• 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.
  • usage: "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force"
  • synonyms: force out, force-out, force play

verb

• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure
• Urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate.
  • synonyms: impel
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: push
• Impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably.
  • usage: "She forced her diet fads on him"
  • synonyms: thrust
• Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space.
  • usage: "I squeezed myself into the corner"
  • synonyms: wedge, squeeze
• Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.
  • usage: "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
  • synonyms: drive, ram
• Cause to move by pulling.
  • usage: "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"
  • synonyms: pull, draw
• Do forcibly; exert force.
  • usage: "Don't force it"
• Take by force.
  • usage: "Storm the fort"
  • synonyms: storm