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say it: fawrs
force is a noun and verb meaning "a powerful effect or influence". It carries 18 recorded senses.
(physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
“force equals mass times acceleration”
physics
group of people willing to obey orders
“a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens”
a unit that is part of some military service
“he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men”
military
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 one”
one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
“the mysterious presence of an evil power”
“may the force be with you”
“the forces of evil”
a group of people having the power of effective action
“he joined forces with a band of adventurers”
a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
“the shortstop got the runner at second on a force”
baseball
to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
“She forced him to take a job in the city”
“He squeezed her for information”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for force come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.