force – English noun declension

English noun forms of force

Noun: force
Singularforce
Pluralforces

Sample Sentences

  • the force of an appeal, an argument, or a contract
  • show of force
  • He was, in the full force of the words, a good man. [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
  • After his actions were challenged by foreign governments and Parliament initially tried to put a stop to his action, Denman returned home and argued his case with enough force that, by 1848, the Royal Navy was handed active permission and encouragement to raze every last slave factory they could find to the ground, and full authority to stop any ship, of any flag, that was thought to be a slaver, with a guarantee with^([sic]) no censure from the government. [2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 9:45 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:]
  • Torque is the rotational version of force.
  • Force is the result of fundamental interactions.
  • Most physicists deem there to be four fundamental forces: the weak force, the strong force, gravitation, and the electromagnetic force.
  • fictitious forces
  • As the force that attracts conglomerates of matter to one another, gravity has a limitless pull. [1989 May, John Boslough, “Searching for the Secrets of Gravity”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 563:]
  • The Europeans tried, my goodness how they tried. But on the day the US proved too strong and too inspired. They were, dammit, just better. And when Leonard's putt dropped they clearly had the force with them as well. [1999 September 28, Mike Selvey, “Crenshaw vindicated by a chain reaction”, in The Guardian:]
  • The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. [2005, George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, spoken by Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), published 2005:]
  • Catrin: Are you gonna bring it me, or shall I use the Force? [2010, Gary Owen, Love Steals Us from Loneliness, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →DOI, →ISBN, page 14:]
  • A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever. [2012 March 26, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:]
  • Two forces acting upon the same point on an object will cancel out only if they have equal magnitude and opposite directions.
  • Heavier objects are those that are subject to more gravitational force.
  • force of nature
  • I believe that the main long-term force that guides a society's evolution is not the economy or the leaders, but the culture.
  • Some skeptics have attributed changing temperatures to forces out of our control, such as axial procession.
  • market forces
  • which now they hold by force, and not by right [1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]
  • air force; police force
  • Force Z
  • Is Lucius general of the forces? [1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]
  • "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.[…]." [1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year. [2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman:]
  • After only a week, Japanese forces had captured Singapore from the British.
  • reinforcements grew the American force in the area to 9,000
  • Roman forces were
  • Q. All the time that he was on the force?
  • A. I cannot say that; but there were men on with me when I was on the force who were very good Republicans.
  • Q. During all this time you have been on the police force? [1880, [U.S.] House documents, page 64:]
  • Some of those that work forces / Are the same that burn crosses [1992, Rage Against the Machine (band), Killing in the Name]
  • Niall was on the force, too, a detective in major crimes. [2012 February 1, Janice Kay Johnson, Between Love and Duty, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 77:]
  • The law will come into force in January.
  • When the aspectual force of the verbal categories weakens, the 'terminative', punctual or determinative value of the prefix gains in importance,... [1962, J Gonda, The aspectual function of the R̥gvedic present and aorist, S̓-Gravenhage, Mouton, page 43:]
  • force of mortality

Etymology

From Middle English force, fors, forse, from Old French force, from Late Latin fortia, a noun derived from the neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”). See: Middle English Nouns 'force', Latin Nouns 'fortis'.

Verbs referencing "force"

Icelandic Nouns foss.