Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - force
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 power; exerted strength or impetus; intense effort. 2 coercion or compulsion, esp. with the use or threat of violence. 3 a military strength. b (in pl.) troops; fighting resources. c an organized body of people, esp. soldiers, police, or workers. 4 binding power; validity. 5 effect; precise significance (the force of their words). 6 a mental or moral strength; influence, efficacy (force of habit). b vividness of effect (described with much force). 7 Physics a an influence tending to cause the motion of a body. b the intensity of this equal to the mass of the body and its acceleration. 8 a person or thing regarded as exerting influence (is a force for good). --v. 1 tr. constrain (a person) by force or against his or her will. 2 tr. make a way through or into by force; break open by force. 3 tr. (usu. with prep. or adv.) drive or propel violently or against resistance (forced it into the hole; the wind forced them back). 4 tr. (foll. by on, upon) impose or press (on a person) (forced their views on us). 5 tr. a cause or produce by effort (forced a smile). b attain by strength or effort (forced an entry; must force a decision). 6 tr. strain or increase to the utmost; overstrain. 7 tr. artificially hasten the development or maturity of (a plant). 8 tr. seek or demand quick results from; accelerate the process of (force the pace). 9 intr. Cards make a play that compels another particular play. Phrases and idioms by force of by means of. force the bidding (at an auction) make bids to raise the price rapidly. forced labour compulsory labour, esp. under harsh conditions. forced landing the unavoidable landing of an aircraft in an emergency. forced march a long and vigorous march esp. by troops. force-feed force (esp. a prisoner) to take food. force field (in science fiction) an invisible barrier of force. force a person's hand make a person act prematurely or unwillingly. force the issue render an immediate decision necessary. force-land land an aircraft in an emergency. force-pump a pump that forces water under pressure. in force 1 valid, effective. 2 in great strength or numbers. join forces combine efforts. Derivatives forceable adj. forceably adv. forcer n. Etymology: ME f. OF force, forcer ult. f. L fortis strong 2. n. N.Engl. a waterfall. Etymology: ON fors
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *fortia, from Latin fortis strong Date: 14th century 1. a. strength or energy exerted or brought to bear ; cause of motion or change ; active power , (2) capitalized — used with a number to indicate the strength of the wind according to the Beaufort scale moral or mental strength, capacity to persuade or convince , 2. military strength, b. a body (as of troops or ships) assigned to a military purpose, the whole military strength (as of a nation), a body of persons or things available for a particular end , an individual or group having the power of effective action , police ~, violence, compulsion, or constraint exerted upon or against a person or thing, 4. an agency or influence that if applied to a free body results chiefly in an acceleration of the body and sometimes in elastic deformation and other effects, any of the natural influences (as electromagnetism, gravity, the strong ~, and the weak ~) that exist especially between particles and determine the structure of the universe, the quality of conveying impressions intensely in writing or speech , see: power ~less adjective II. transitive verb (~d; forcing) Date: 14th century to do violence to, to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means, to make or cause especially through natural or logical necessity , 4. to press, drive, pass, or effect against resistance or inertia , to impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably , to achieve or win by strength in struggle or violence: as, to win one's way into , to break open or through , 6. to raise or accelerate to the utmost , to produce only with unnatural or unwilling effort , to wrench, strain, or use (language) with marked unnaturalness and lack of ease, 7. to hasten the rate of progress or growth of, to bring (as plants) to maturity out of the normal season , to induce (as a particular bid or play by another player) in a card game by some conventional act, play, bid, or response, 9. to cause (a runner in baseball) to be put out on a ~-out, to...Толковый словарь английского языка
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