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Doublet of foss.", "From Middle English forcen, forsen, a use of force, with confusion of farce (“to stuff”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.\nthe force of an appeal, an argument, or a contract" }, { "mean": "Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion." }, { "mean": "(countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing." }, { "mean": "(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)" }, { "mean": "Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape." }, { "mean": "(countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.\nreinforcemented increased the American force in the area to 9,000\npolice force" }, { "mean": "(uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.\nshow of force" }, { "mean": "(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." }, { "mean": "(law) Legal validity.\nThe law will come into force in January." }, { "mean": "(law) Either unlawful violence, as in a \"forced entry\", or lawful compulsion." }, { "mean": "(linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning." }, { "mean": "(humorous or science fiction, with the, often capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note." }, { "mean": "(usually with \"the\", in the singular or plural) Synonym of police force" } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Imperial unit: pound, poundal\nmetric unit: newton" } ] }, { "name": "References", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "force on Wikipedia.Wikipedia" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape." }, { "mean": "(obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb)." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force. \nThe comedian's jokes weren't funny, but I forced a laugh now and then." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.). \nTo force a lock." }, { "mean": "To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress." }, { "mean": "(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.\nJones forced the runner at second by stepping on the bag." }, { "mean": "(whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold." }, { "mean": "(archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce." }, { "mean": "(archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for." } ] }, { "name": "See_also_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "coerce: To control by force." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade." } ] }, { "name": "Verb_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To stuff; to lard; to farce." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "force at OneLook Dictionary Search\nforce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. 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