FPage 242
- English Word Force Definition Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
- English Word Force Definition To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.
- English Word Force Definition To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
- English Word Force Definition To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
- English Word Force Definition To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- English Word Force Definition To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
- English Word Force Definition To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
- English Word Force Definition To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
- English Word Force Definition To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
- English Word Force Definition To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
- English Word Force Definition To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
- English Word Force Definition To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
- English Word Force Definition To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
- English Word Force Definition To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
- English Word Force pump Definition A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston.
- English Word Force pump Definition A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger.
- English Word Forced Definition of Force
- English Word Forced Definition Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.
- English Word Forceful Definition Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty.
- English Word Forceless Definition Having little or no force; feeble.