force
- noun
- /fɔrs/
- Specialized
- So friction is a force acting on a body.
- use force
- brute force
- exert force
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Watch on YouTubeIt should be thrown with great force and sincere regrets.
- It should be thrown with great force and sincere regrets.
- Instead, they know they don't have the physical force to stop that.
- And therefore you can work out how strong the force of gravity is.
- A lion has the quintessential concentration of force, which is fangs and claws.
- Like there is a kind of force that pulls you back.
Examples
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The international community intervened with the use of force in some but not in others.
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It was becoming a major force within the music industry.
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There must be a new force, a nuclear force.
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We have tried, but there is no force in the water.
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So you have to look at surface forces, not bulk forces.
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Instead, they know they don't have the physical force to stop that.
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We could be talking about wind gusts of hurricane force 70 miles per hour or greater.
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A fluid foil generates a force due to the difference in its surface areas.
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The massive waves quickly flooded the streets with a force that destroyed anything in their path.
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So friction is a force acting on a body.
Synonyms
The use of physical force that hurts people or damages things
Physical or mental power a person has to act
A force that makes something move forward
Extra force used to make something move or have an effect
A sudden force that makes something start moving faster
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Make someone accept ideas or opinions they do not want by pressuring them
- Informal
A wish of good luck people say to encourage someone, often playfully
Compounds
A branch of a country's military that uses planes to fight and protect the country
A group of soldiers and other people trained to protect a country from attack
A branch of the United States military that fights in the air and space
The part of the United States military that flies planes and defends the country in the air and space
- Specialized
The push you feel when you speed up, compared with normal gravity like on a roller coaster
- Specialized
A pull between all objects, especially Earth's pull on things near its surface
The army, navy, and air force of Israel working together to protect the country
- Formal
A large unexpected event like a natural disaster or war that prevents someone from fulfilling a contract
- Specialized
A force that holds protons and neutrons together inside an atom's nucleus
- Literature
A group of people trained like soldiers to act with or for the army
- Specialized
A basic interaction in nature that causes some radioactive decay and acts on particles like neutrinos
A group of armed fighters who use sudden attacks against a larger army in rural areas
An evil part of a mysterious power that bad characters use in Star Wars
A group of guards a company or person hires to protect people and property
- Specialized
An imaginary line that shows the direction of force at points in an electric or magnetic field
A United States military school in Colorado Springs that trains Air Force officers
- Specialized
A push that makes moving things curve on a rotating body like Earth
A group of armed fighters not part of the official army who use surprise attacks and sabotage
A former part of the United States Air Force that managed military space and missile operations
- Specialized
A pull that makes two things move toward each other, like gravity or magnets
- Specialized
An area around something where its push or pull affects other things
- Specialized
A force on a moving electric charge caused by electric and magnetic fields
- Specialized
Invisible lines around a magnet that show which way its pull points
- Specialized
An attack by a large group of soldiers to test the enemy and collect information
- Jargon
A baseball out that happens when a fielder holding the ball touches the base a runner must reach
A school that trains people to be officers in the US Air Force at Colorado Springs
- Specialized
A United States Air Force group that researches and develops new aircraft and space technology
- Specialized
A play where a runner must advance and a fielder with the ball touches the base first
- Literature
A part of Star Wars about a good kind of power that Jedi use
- Specialized
A push or pull from air on something moving through it, for example lift and drag on a wing
- Specialized
Energy from a source that makes electricity flow in a circuit, measured in volts
An illegal armed group in Colombia formed in 1997 that fought and sold drugs
A branch of the United States military that uses planes and works in space to defend the country
- Offensive
A violent armed group in Northern Ireland formed in 1996 that was against the peace process
- Specialized
A force that pushes against a moving object, like air or water, to slow it down
- Specialized
A play when a runner must go to a base and a player holding the ball touches it first
- Specialized
An imaginary line showing the direction a positive electric charge moves and how strong the field is
- Specialized
A list of metals that shows which metal can replace another in a liquid
- Specialized
A system that uses a pump to push oil under pressure into an engine's moving parts
- Specialized
A unit for measuring the force that pushes a magnetic field through a circuit
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Force comes from the Latin word fortis, which means 'strong', so it started as the idea of strength or power. You can see the same root in fortress, and that is why force means a physical push or power that can move or break things.