meaning of force
1. To stuff; to lard; to farce.
2. A waterfall; a cascade.
3. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; 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.
4. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
5. 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.
6. Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
7. Validity; efficacy.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
11. To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
12. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
13. To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc. , by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
14. To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
15. 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 consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
16. To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
17. To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
18. To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
19. To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
20. To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
21. To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
22. A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston.
23. A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger.
24. an act of aggression as one against a person who resists; "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short
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