force Meaning and Definition

1. n. 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

2. n. an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

3. n. (of a law) having legal validity

4. n. physical energy or intensity

5. n. a powerful effect or influence

6. n. a unit that is part of some military service

7. n. a group of people having the power of effective action

8. n. group of people willing to obey orders

9. n. one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

10. n. (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

11. v. impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably

12. v. do forcibly; exert force

13. v. cause to move by pulling

14. v. force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

15. v. squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

16. v. take by force

17. v. urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

18. v. move with force,

19. v. to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :