force
英 [fɔːs]
美[fɔrs]
- n. 力量；武力；军队；魄力
- vt. 促使，推动；强迫；强加
- n. (Force)人名；(意)福尔切；(英、法)福斯
英英释意
- 1. a unit that is part of some military service;
- "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"
- 2. 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"
- 3. (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity;
- "force equals mass times acceleration"
- 4. group of people willing to obey orders;
- "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"
- 5. a powerful effect or influence;
- "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"
- 6. 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"
- 7. 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"
- 8. a group of people having the power of effective action;
- "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"
- 9. (of a law) having legal validity;
- "the law is still in effect"
