FORCES - Definition & Meaning for Kids
Meaning 1
Part of speech: Noun
one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
Example: the mysterious presence of an evil power; may the force be with you; the forces of evil
Meaning 2
Part of speech: Noun
(physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
Example: force equals mass times acceleration
Meaning 3
Part of speech: Noun
a putout of a base runner who is required to run
Example: 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
Meaning 4
Part of speech: Noun
(of a law) having legal validity
Example: the law is still in effect
Meaning 5
Part of speech: Noun
physical energy or intensity
Example: 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
Meaning 6
Part of speech: Noun
a powerful effect or influence
Example: the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them
Meaning 7
Part of speech: Noun
a unit that is part of some military service
Example: he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men
Meaning 8
Part of speech: Noun
a group of people having the power of effective action
Example: he joined forces with a band of adventurers
Meaning 9
Part of speech: Noun
group of people willing to obey orders
Example: a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens
Meaning 10
Part of speech: Noun
an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
Example: he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one
Meaning 11
Part of speech: Verb
do forcibly
Example: exert force; Don't force it!
Meaning 12
Part of speech: Verb
force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
Example: She rammed her mind into focus; He drives me mad
Meaning 13
Part of speech: Verb
squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
Example: I squeezed myself into the corner
Meaning 14
Part of speech: Verb
take by force
Example: Storm the fort
Meaning 15
Part of speech: Verb
urge or force (a person) to an action
Example: constrain or motivate
Meaning 16
Part of speech: Verb
move with force
Example: He pushed the table into a corner
Meaning 17
Part of speech: Verb
to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
Example: She forced him to take a job in the city; He squeezed her for information
Meaning 18
Part of speech: Verb
impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
Example: She forced her diet fads on him