A Quick and Simple Dictionary

Force

1. Proper noun.  (Northern England) Falls. (non-gloss definition, used in place names.) .
2. Noun.  (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
3. Noun.  (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body which is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn).
4. Noun.  (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
5. Noun.  (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
6. Noun.  (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.
7. Noun.  (legal) Legal validity.
8. Noun.  (legal) Either unlawful violence, as in a "'''forced entry'''", or lawful compulsion.
9. Verb.  (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape. (defdate, from 14th c.) .
10. Verb.  (obsolete, reflexive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost. (defdate, from 14th c.) .
11. Verb.  (transitive) To compel (someone or something) (term, to) do something. (defdate, from 15th c.) .
12. Verb.  (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of. (defdate, from 16th c.) .
13. Verb.  (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb). (defdate, from 16th c.) .
14. Verb.  (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force. (defdate, from 16th c.) .
15. Verb.  (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.). (defdate, from 17th c.) .
16. Verb.  (transitive, baseball) 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.
17. Noun.  (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.