Force vs. Load

Forcenoun

Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.

Forcenoun

Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.

Forcenoun

(countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.

Forcenoun

A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)

Forcenoun

Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.

Forcenoun

(countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.

Forcenoun

(uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.

Forcenoun

(countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.

Forcenoun

(legal) Legal validity.

Forcenoun

(legal) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.

Forcenoun

Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.

Forcenoun

(science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas.

Forcenoun

A waterfall or cascade.

Forceverb

(transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.

Forceverb

To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.

Forceverb

(transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.

Forceverb

(transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.

Forceverb

(transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).

Forceverb

(transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.

Forceverb

(transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).

Forceverb

To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.

Forceverb

To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.

Forceverb

(whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.

Forceverb

(archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.

Forceverb

(archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.

Forceverb

(obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.

Forceverb

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

Forceverb

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

Forceverb

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.

Forceverb

To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.

Forceverb

To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one's will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.

Forceverb

To obtain, overcome, or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress; as, to force the castle; to force a lock.

Forceverb

To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; - with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.

Forceverb

To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.

Forceverb

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 conceit or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.

Forceverb

To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.

Forceverb

To provide with forces; to reënforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.

Forceverb

To allow the force of; to value; to care for.

Forceverb

To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.

Forceverb

To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.

Forceverb

To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.

Forcenoun

A waterfall; a cascade.

Forcenoun

Capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.

Forcenoun

Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion; as, by force of arms; to take by force.

Forcenoun

Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; - an armament; troops; warlike array; - often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation; the armed forces.

Forcenoun

Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.

Forcenoun

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.

Forcenoun

a unit that is part of some military service;

Forcenoun

one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority;

Forcenoun

(physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity;

Forcenoun

group of people willing to obey orders;

Forcenoun

a powerful effect or influence;

Forcenoun

an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists);

Forcenoun

physical energy or intensity;

Forcenoun

a group of people having the power of effective action;

Forcenoun

(of a law) having legal validity;

Forceverb

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

Forceverb

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

Forceverb

move with force,

Forceverb

impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably;

Forceverb

squeeze like a wedge into a tight space;

Forceverb

force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically;

Forceverb

do forcibly; exert force;

Forceverb

cause to move along the ground by pulling;

Forceverb

take by force;

Forcenoun

strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement

Forcenoun

an influence tending to change the motion of a body or produce motion or stress in a stationary body. The magnitude of such an influence is often calculated by multiplying the mass of the body and its acceleration.

Forcenoun

used with a number as a measure of wind strength on the Beaufort scale

Forcenoun

coercion or compulsion, especially with the use or threat of violence

Forcenoun

mental or moral strength or power

Forcenoun

a person or thing regarded as exerting power or influence

Forcenoun

the powerful effect of something

Forcenoun

an organized body of military personnel or police

Forcenoun

troops and weaponry

Forcenoun

the army, navy, and air force of a country.

Forcenoun

the police.

Forcenoun

a group of people brought together and organized for a particular activity

Forcenoun

a waterfall.

Forceverb

make a way through or into by physical strength; break open by force

Forceverb

drive or push into a specified position or state using physical strength or against resistance

Forceverb

achieve or bring about (something) by effort

Forceverb

artificially hasten the development or maturity of (a plant).

Forceverb

make (someone) do something against their will

Forceverb

put out (a runner) by necessitating an advance to the next base when it is not possible to do so safely.

Force

In physics, a force is any influence that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object. A force can cause an object with mass to change its velocity (which includes to begin moving from a state of rest), i.e., to accelerate.

Loadnoun

A burden; a weight to be carried.

Loadnoun

(figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.

Loadnoun

A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.

Loadnoun

(in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle

Loadnoun

A large number or amount.

Loadnoun

The volume of work required to be performed.

Loadnoun

(engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.

Loadnoun

(electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.

Loadnoun

(engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.

Loadnoun

(electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.

Loadnoun

A unit of measure for various quantities.

Loadnoun

A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.

Loadnoun

The charge of powder for a firearm.

Loadnoun

(obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.

Loadnoun

The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.

Loadnoun

(euphemism) Nonsense; rubbish.

Loadnoun

(computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.

Loadverb

(transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).

Loadverb

(transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.

Loadverb

(intransitive) To put a load on something.

Loadverb

(intransitive) To receive a load.

Loadverb

(intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.

Loadverb

(transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.

Loadverb

(transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.

Loadverb

(transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.

Loadverb

(intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.

Loadverb

To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.

Loadverb

To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

Loadverb

To put runners on first, second and third bases

Loadverb

(transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.

Loadverb

(transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.

Loadverb

(transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.

Loadverb

(transitive) To provide in abundance.

Loadverb

(transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead.

Loadverb

To adulterate or drug.

Loadverb

To magnetize.

Loadnoun

A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.

Loadnoun

The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading.

Loadnoun

That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care.

Loadnoun

A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters.

Loadnoun

The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder.

Loadnoun

Weight or violence of blows.

Loadnoun

The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.

Loadnoun

The amount of work that a person, group, or machine is assigned to perform; as, the boss distributed the load evenly among his employees.

Loadnoun

The device or devices that consume power from a power supply.

Loadnoun

The weight or force that a structural support bears or is designed to bear; the object that creates that force.

Loadverb

To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon.

Loadverb

To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine.

Loadverb

To magnetize.

Loadnoun

weight to be borne or conveyed

Loadnoun

a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time;

Loadnoun

goods carried by a large vehicle

Loadnoun

an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate;

Loadnoun

the power output of a generator or power plant

Loadnoun

an onerous or difficult concern;

Loadnoun

a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks

Loadnoun

the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents

Loadnoun

electrical device to which electrical power is delivered

Loadverb

fill or place a load on;

Loadverb

provide with munition;

Loadverb

put (something) on a structure or conveyance;

Loadnoun

a heavy or bulky thing that is being carried or is about to be carried

Loadnoun

the total number or amount that can be carried in something, typically a vehicle or container

Loadnoun

a quantity of items washed or to be washed in a washing machine or dishwasher at one time

Loadnoun

the material carried along by a stream, glacier, ocean current, etc.

Loadnoun

a weight or source of pressure borne by someone or something

Loadnoun

the amount of work to be done by a person or machine

Loadnoun

a burden of responsibility, worry, or grief.

Loadnoun

a lot of

Loadnoun

plenty

Loadnoun

the amount of power supplied by a source; the resistance of moving parts to be overcome by a motor

Loadnoun

the amount of electricity supplied by a generating system at any given time.

Loadnoun

an impedance or circuit that receives or develops the output of a transistor or other device.

Loadverb

fill (a vehicle, ship, container, etc.) with a large amount of something

Loadverb

place (a load or large quantity of something) on or in a vehicle, ship, container, etc.

Loadverb

(of a ship or vehicle) take on a load

Loadverb

take, buy, or consume a large amount of

Loadverb

make (someone or something) carry or hold a large or excessive quantity of heavy things

Loadverb

supply someone or something with (something) in overwhelming abundance or to excess

Loadverb

bias towards a particular outcome

Loadverb

charge (a firearm) with ammunition

Loadverb

insert something into (a device) so that it can be operated

Loadverb

insert (something) into a device so that it will operate

Loadverb

transfer (a program or data) into memory, or into the central processor from storage

Loadverb

add an extra charge to (an insurance premium) to take account of a factor that increases the risk.