Force
Definition of Force
| v. t. | 1. | To stuff; to lard; to farce. | | n. | 1. | A waterfall; a cascade. | | 1. | Capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.He was, in the full force of the words, a good man. - Macaulay. | | 2. | Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion; as, by force of arms; to take by force.Which now they hold by force, and not by right. - Shak. | | 3. | Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; - an armament; troops; warlike array; - often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation; the armed forces. | | 4. | (Law) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence. | | 5. | (Physics) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force. | | v. t. | 1. | To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor. | | 2. | To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind. | | 3. | To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one's will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon. | | 4. | To obtain, overcome, or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress; as, to force the castle; to force a lock. | | 5. | To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; - with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc. | | 6. | To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.What can the church force more? - J. Webster. | | 7. | To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a conceit or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits. | | 8. | (Whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none. | | 9. | To provide with forces; to reënforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison. | | 10. | To allow the force of; to value; to care for. | | v. i. | 1. | To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor. | | 2. | To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard. | | 3. | To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter. |
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