force

Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.countableuncountable

• the force of an appeal, an argument, or a contract
• show of force

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).; The generalized abstraction of this concept.uncountable

• Torque is the rotational version of force.
• Force is the result of fundamental interactions.

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).; A particular form or type of force.countable

• Most physicists deem there to be four fundamental forces: the weak force, the strong force, gravitation, and the electromagnetic force.
• fictitious forces

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).; A particular form or type of force.capitalizedcountablehumorous

• The Europeans tried, my goodness how they tried. But on the day the US proved too strong and too inspired. They were, dammit, just better. And when Leonard's putt dropped they clearly had the force with them as well.
• The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

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).; An instance of a physical force.countable

• Two forces acting upon the same point on an object will cancel out only if they have equal magnitude and opposite directions.

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).; Force understood as something of which there can be an amount.possiblyproscribeduncountable

• Heavier objects are those that are subject to more gravitational force.

Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.countable

Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.countableuncountable

Something that exerts influence.countable

• force of nature

Something that exerts influence.; Something that, over time, influences a system with which it interacts (with a connotation of underlyingness, subtlety, or indirectness).countableuncountable

• I believe that the main long-term force that guides a society's evolution is not the economy or the leaders, but the culture.
• Some skeptics have attributed changing temperatures to forces out of our control, such as axial procession.

To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.transitive

• The second problem is the economy, the shocking state of which has forced the decision to apply to the EU.
• Housebuilders had warned that the higher costs involved would have forced them to build fewer homes and priced many homebuyers out of the market.

To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.transitive

• Shall wee force the general law of nature, which in all living creatures under heaven is seene to tremble at paine?

To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).transitive

• It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay / That scarce the victor forced the steel away.
• to force the tyrant from his seat by war

To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.transitive

• The comedian's jokes weren't funny, but I forced a laugh now and then.

To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).transitive

• I forgot my keys in and so we had to force (open) the door.

To violate (a woman); to rape.transitive

• a young woman not farre from mee had headlong cast her selfe out of a high window, with intent to kill herselfe, only to avoid the ravishment of a rascally-base souldier that lay in her house, who offered to force her[…].

To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.intransitiveobsoletereflexive

• And I pray you for my sake to force yourselff there, that men may speke you worshyp.

To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.

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.transitive

• Jones forced the runner at second by stepping on the bag.

To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.

A waterfall or cascade.Northern-Englandcountable

• to see the falls or force of the river Kent

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

• Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit.