Force Meaning

There are 18 meaning(s) for word Force

Force Meaning 1 : (of a law) having legal validity

    Synonyms : effect
Force Meaning 2 : group of people willing to obey orders

    Example : a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens

    Synonyms : personnel
Force Meaning 3 : physical energy or intensity

    Example : he hit with all the force he could muster,a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man

    Synonyms : forcefulness,  strength
Force Meaning 4 : 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

    Example : the shortstop got the runner at second on a force

    Synonyms : force-out,  force out,  force play
Force Meaning 5 : to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

    Example : She forced him to take a job in the city

    Synonyms : coerce,  hale,  pressure,  squeeze
Force Meaning 6 : force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

    Synonyms : drive,  ram
Force Meaning 7 : urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

    Synonyms : impel
Force Meaning 8 : move with force

    Synonyms : push
Force Meaning 9 : impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

    Example : She forced her diet fads on him

    Synonyms : thrust
Force Meaning 10 : squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

    Synonyms : squeeze,  wedge
Force Meaning 11 : a unit that is part of some military service

    Example : he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men

    Synonyms : military force,  military group,  military unit
Force Meaning 12 : one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

    Example : may the force be with you,the forces of evil

    Synonyms : power
Force Meaning 13 : an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

    Example : he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one

    Synonyms : violence
Force Meaning 14 : take by force

    Synonyms : storm
Force Meaning 15 : a group of people having the power of effective action

    Example : he joined forces with a band of adventurers

Force Meaning 16 : a powerful effect or influence

    Example : the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them

Force Meaning 17 : do forcibly; exert force

    Example : Don't force it!

Force Meaning 18 : (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

    Example : force equals mass times acceleration

How to Pronounce Force

  • foʊrs