Force vs. Strength

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.

Strengthnoun

The quality or degree of being strong.

Strengthnoun

The intensity of a force or power; potency.

Strengthnoun

The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.

Strengthnoun

A positive attribute.

Strengthnoun

(obsolete) Armed force, body of troops.

Strengthnoun

(obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.

Strengthverb

(obsolete) To give strength to; to strengthen.

Strengthnoun

The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.

Strengthnoun

Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; - in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like.

Strengthnoun

Power of resisting attacks; impregnability.

Strengthnoun

That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument.

Strengthnoun

One who, or that which, is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security.

Strengthnoun

Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea?

Strengthnoun

Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; - said of literary work.

Strengthnoun

Intensity; - said of light or color.

Strengthnoun

Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; - said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids.

Strengthnoun

A strong place; a stronghold.

Strengthverb

To strengthen.

Strengthnoun

the property of being physically or mentally strong;

Strengthnoun

capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war;

Strengthnoun

physical energy or intensity;

Strengthnoun

an asset of special worth or utility;

Strengthnoun

the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty;

Strengthnoun

the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation);

Strengthnoun

capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects;

Strengthnoun

the condition of financial success;

Strengthnoun

permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force;

Strengthnoun

the quality or state of being physically strong

Strengthnoun

the influence or power possessed by a person, organization, or country

Strengthnoun

the degree of intensity of a feeling or belief

Strengthnoun

the extent to which an argument or case is sound or convincing

Strengthnoun

the potency, intensity, or speed of a force or natural agency

Strengthnoun

the potential of a hand to win tricks, arising from the number and type of high cards it contains.

Strengthnoun

the capacity of an object or substance to withstand great force or pressure

Strengthnoun

the emotional or mental qualities necessary in dealing with difficult or distressing situations

Strengthnoun

the potency or degree of concentration of a drug, chemical, or drink

Strengthnoun

a good or beneficial quality or attribute of a person or thing

Strengthnoun

a person or thing perceived as a source of mental or emotional support

Strengthnoun

the number of people comprising a group, typically a team or army

Strengthnoun

a number of people required to make such a group complete