Definition of Force

Force

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

A waterfall; a cascade.

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.

Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.

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.

Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.

Validity; efficacy.

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.

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.

To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.

To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.

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

To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.

To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.

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.

To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.

To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.

To allow the force of; to value; to care for.

To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.

To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.

To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.

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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
Winston Churchill

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
Thomas Jefferson

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Steve Jobs

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington