force: signification et définitions

The capacity to do work or cause physical change; energy, strength, or active power: the force of an explosion.

Power made operative against resistance; exertion: use force in driving a nail.

The use of physical power or violence to compel or restrain: a confession obtained by force.

Intellectual power or vigor, especially as conveyed in writing or speech.

Moral strength.

A capacity for affecting the mind or behavior; efficacy: the force of logical argumentation.

One that possesses such capacity: the forces of evil.

A body of persons or other resources organized or available for a certain purpose: a large labor force.

A person or group capable of influential action: a retired senator who is still a force in national politics.

Military strength.

The entire military strength, as of a nation. Often used in the plural.

A unit of a nation's military personnel, especially one deployed into combat: Our forces have at last engaged the enemy.

Law Legal validity.

Physics A vector quantity that tends to produce an acceleration of a body in the direction of its application.

Baseball A force play.

To compel through pressure or necessity: I forced myself to practice daily. He was forced to take a second job.

To gain by the use of force or coercion: force a confession.

To move or effect against resistance or inertia: forced my foot into the shoe.

To inflict or impose relentlessly: He forced his ideas upon the group.

To put undue strain on: She forced her voice despite being hoarse.

To increase or accelerate (a pace, for example) to the maximum.

To produce with effort and against one's will: force a laugh in spite of pain.

To use (language) with obvious lack of ease and naturalness.

To move, open, or clear by force: forced our way through the crowd.

To break down or open by force: force a lock.