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Results for: "force"

Translating from English to Catalan

Translations:

force — strength, power, energy
→ força f
force — physical quantity
→ força f
force — to compel someone to do something
→ forçar

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (10)

1. a powerful effect or influence;
- Example: "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"

2. (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity;
- Example: "force equals mass times acceleration"

3. physical energy or intensity;
- Example: "he hit with all the force he could muster"
- Example: "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"
- Example: "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"
[syn: force, forcefulness, strength]

4. group of people willing to obey orders;
- Example: "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"
[syn: force, personnel]

5. a unit that is part of some military service;
- Example: "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"
[syn: military unit, military force, military group, force]

6. an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists);
- Example: "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"
[syn: violence, force]

7. one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority;
- Example: "the mysterious presence of an evil power"
- Example: "may the force be with you"
- Example: "the forces of evil"
[syn: power, force]

8. a group of people having the power of effective action;
- Example: "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"

9. (of a law) having legal validity;
- Example: "the law is still in effect"
[syn: effect, force]

10. 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;
- Example: "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force"
[syn: force out, force-out, force play, force]


VERB (9)

1. to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city";
- Example: "He squeezed her for information"
[syn: coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force]

2. urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate;
[syn: impel, force]

3. move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner";
[syn: push, force]

4. impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably;
- Example: "She forced her diet fads on him"
[syn: force, thrust]

5. squeeze like a wedge into a tight space;
- Example: "I squeezed myself into the corner"
[syn: wedge, squeeze, force]

6. force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically;
- Example: "She rammed her mind into focus"
- Example: "He drives me mad"
[syn: force, drive, ram]

7. cause to move by pulling;
- Example: "draw a wagon"
- Example: "pull a sled"
[syn: pull, draw, force]

8. do forcibly; exert force;
- Example: "Don't force it!"

9. take by force;
- Example: "Storm the fort"
[syn: storm, force]