How to pronounce “force”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
• (physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn).
• (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
• Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
• (countable) Something that exerts influence.
• (uncountable) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
• (countable) A group organized for the goal of attacking, controlling, or constraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
• (law, uncountable) The state of having legal weight, of being legally valid,.
• (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.
• (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
• (financial mathematics, actuarial science) The annualized instantaneous rate of change at a particular timepoint.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will. [from 15thc.]
• (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of. [from 16thc.]
• (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb). [from 16thc.]
• (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force. [from 16thc.]
• (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.). [from 17thc.]
• (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape. [from 14thc.]
• (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost. [from 14thc.]
• To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
• (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.
• (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
• (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
• (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
• (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
• To grow (rhubarb) in the dark, causing it to grow early.

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