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Noun force has 9 senses
- military unit, military force, military group, force - a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"
--1 is a kind of unit, social unit
--1 is a member of military service, armed service, service
--1 has members: serviceman, military man, man, military personnel
--1 has particulars: | | trip wire; command; enemy; task force; army unit; naval unit; air unit; armor, armour; mujahidin, mujahedin, mujahedeen, mujahadeen, mujahadin, mujahideen, mujahadein; legion; echelon; phalanx; Republican Guard; Haganah; Israeli Defense Force, IDF; militia, reserves; home guard; commando; contingent, detail; headquarters; spearhead |
- power, force - 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"
--2 is a kind of causal agent, cause, causal agency
--2 has particulars: juggernaut, steamroller; influence; Moloch
- force - (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration"
--3 is a kind of physical phenomenon
--3 has particulars: | | aerodynamic force; affinity, chemical attraction; attraction, attractive force; repulsion, repulsive force; centrifugal force; centripetal force; cohesion; Coriolis force; drift, impetus, impulsion; Lorentz force; moment; propulsion; pull; push, thrust; reaction; stress; torsion, torque; magnetomotive force; life force, vital force, vitality, elan vital |
- force, personnel - group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"
--4 is a kind of organization, organisation
--4 has particulars: | | guerrilla force, guerilla force; military service, armed service, service; military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine; paramilitary, paramilitary force, paramilitary unit, paramilitary organization, paramilitary organisation; police, police force, constabulary, law; security force, private security force; military police, MP; work force, workforce, manpower, hands, men; patrol; military personnel, soldiery, troops; rank and file, rank; staff; line personnel; management personnel |
- force - a powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"
--5 is a kind of influence
--5 has particulars: pressure; duress; heartbeat; lifeblood; wheels
- violence, force - 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"
--6 is a kind of aggression, hostility
--6 has particulars: domestic violence; road rage; riot, public violence
- force, forcefulness, strength - physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"
--7 is a kind of intensity, intensiveness
--7 has particulars:
- force - a group of people having the power of effective action; "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"
--8 is a kind of social group
- effect, force - (of a law) having legal validity; "the law is still in effect"
--9 is a kind of validity, validness
Verb force has 9 senses
- coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force - 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"
--1 is one way to compel, oblige, obligate
Sample sentence:
They force him to write the letter
- impel, force - urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
--2 is one way to cause, do, make
Sample sentence:
They force him to write the letter
- push, force - move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"
--3 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s PP
- force, thrust - impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him"
--4 is one way to compel, oblige, obligate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something on somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
- wedge, squeeze, force - squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"
--5 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- force, drive, ram - force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
--6 is one way to thrust
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
- force - do forcibly; exert force; "Don't force it!"
--7 is one way to act, move
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- pull, draw, force - cause to move along the ground by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"
--8 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- storm, force - take by force; "Storm the fort"
--9 is one way to penetrate, perforate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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