force

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Someone managed to hack in by brute force anyway.

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Quick take

a powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of force gathered in one view.

noun

a powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"

noun

(physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration"

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physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for force.

noun

a powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"

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(physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration"

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physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"

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group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"

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a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"

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an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"

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one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority; "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil"

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a group of people having the power of effective action; "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"

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(of a law) having legal validity; "the law is still in effect"

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a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base; "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force"

verb

to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"

See also: coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure

verb

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

verb

move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"

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impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him"

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squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"

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force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"

verb

cause to move by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"

verb

do forcibly; exert force; "Don't force it!"

verb

take by force; "Storm the fort"

Example sentences

Someone managed to hack in by brute force anyway.

That force was their evaporating margins; he was cornered and had to think of a way out.

Lower court rulings can have a powerful impact through the sheer force of their reasoning.

The Internet needs to send a message back, and force her resignation in disgrace.

Ideally, they force the person being squeezed out to choose to quit rather than actually be fired.

Tireless, talented, and astute, she has been a wonderful force for good over the past decade.

He presumably has numbers that show that Quora ends up net ahead if they force people to create accounts to read answers.

If these laws are violated, the state authorities have the power to take legal actions to enforce them.

A decent amount of history looks like people trying to force their culture, their nationality, and their genes forward through history.

* Legally mandated commit messages accompanying each change justifying and explaining it; force them to write these in simple english.

You have to look beyond the law to what its purpose is - to prevent companies from exploiting your personal information, and to force them to tell you what data they hold.

This is a major part of what's now called "agency pricing," and the big 5 publishers and Apple colluded to force Amazon to adopt it several years ago.

More ideas about this in passage: "Right, so you send it to random internet hosts"- The internet lets one hear their own beliefs echoed back with such force that it drowns out any other input.

What bothers me is that I've been forced to do manual data entry - a pet peeve of mine as a programmer - because the government has been lobbied specifically to be less efficient.

One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right.

Retailers like Apple and B&N/Nook have agreed to agency pricing on ebooks in the hopes of shutting down Amazon's ability to discount, with the understanding that publishers were attempting to force Amazon to do the same.

But to belittle people for the choices they make, or to segregate ourselves into voluntary language-ghettos we are compelled to stay in by the force of public opinion...that goes against the spirit of what people like Armstrong worked hard to build.

On the heels of the failure of a project where I have spent weeks building up for, I will quickly force myself to do routine molecular biology, or general lab tasks, or a repeat of an experiment that I have gotten to work in the past.