Main entry: force, force out, force play, force-out
Definition: 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
Usage: the shortstop got the runner at second on a force
Definition: an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
Usage: he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one
Definition: (of a law) having legal validity
Usage: the law is still in effect
Main entry: force, forcefulness, strength
Definition: physical energy or intensity
Usage: 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
Main entry: force
Definition: a powerful effect or influence
Usage: the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them
Main entry: military force, military group, military unit, force
Definition: a unit that is part of some military service
Usage: he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men
Main entry: force
Definition: a group of people having the power of effective action
Usage: he joined forces with a band of adventurers
Definition: group of people willing to obey orders
Usage: a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens
Definition: one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
Usage: the mysterious presence of an evil power; may the force be with you; the forces of evil
Main entry: force
Definition: (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
Usage: force equals mass times acceleration
Definition: impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
Usage: She forced her diet fads on him
Main entry: force
Definition: do forcibly; exert force
Usage: Don't force it!
Definition: cause to move by pulling
Usage: draw a wagon; pull a sled
Definition: force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
Usage: She rammed her mind into focus; He drives me mad
Main entry: force, wedge, squeeze
Definition: squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
Usage: I squeezed myself into the corner
Definition: take by force
Usage: Storm the fort
Definition: urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
Definition: move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"
Main entry: squeeze, pressure, force, hale, coerce
Definition: to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"
Usage: He squeezed her for information