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Definition force

Etymology 1

From Middle English force, fors, forse, borrowed from Old French force, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *fortia, from neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”).

Noun

force (countable and uncountable, plural forces)

1. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
2. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
3. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
4. (countable, physics) 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)
5. Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
6. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
7. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
8. (countable) 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.
9. (law) Legal validity.
10. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
11. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
12. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas.
13. Synonym of police force (“typically with preceding "the"”)

Verb

force (third-person singular simple present forces, present participle forcing, simple past and past participle forced)

1. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape. [from 14c.]
2. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost. [from 14c.]
3. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something. [from 15c.]
4. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of. [from 16c.]
5. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb). [from 16c.]
6. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force. [from 16c.]
7. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.). [from 17c.]
8. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
9. (transitive, baseball) 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.
10. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
11. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
12. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
13. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse fors (“waterfall”). Cognate with Swedish fors (“waterfall”)

Noun

force (plural forces)

1. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.

Etymology 3

From Middle English forcen, forsen, a use of force, with confusion of farce (“to stuff”).

Verb

force (third-person singular simple present forces, present participle forcing, simple past and past participle forced)

1. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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