'No force' definitions:
Definition of 'No force'
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- Force \Force\, n. [F. force, LL. forcia, fortia, fr. L. fortis strong. See Fort, n.]
- 1. Capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term. [1913 Webster]
- He was, in the full force of the words, a good man. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion; as, by force of arms; to take by force. [1913 Webster]
- Which now they hold by force, and not by right. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation; the armed forces. [1913 Webster]
- Is Lucius general of the forces? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Law) (a) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence. (b) Validity; efficacy. --Burrill. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Physics) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force. [1913 Webster]
- Animal force (Physiol.), muscular force or energy.
- Catabiotic force [Gr. ? down (intens.) + ? life.] (Biol.), the influence exerted by living structures on adjoining cells, by which the latter are developed in harmony with the primary structures.
- Centrifugal force, Centripetal force, Coercive force, etc. See under Centrifugal, Centripetal, etc.
- Composition of forces, Correlation of forces, etc. See under Composition, Correlation, etc.
- Force and arms [trans. of L. vi et armis] (Law), an expression in old indictments, signifying violence.
- In force, or Of force, of unimpaired efficacy; valid; of full virtue; not suspended or reversed. "A testament is of force after men are dead." --Heb. ix. 17.
- Metabolic force (Physiol.), the influence which causes and controls the metabolism of the body.
- No force, no matter of urgency or consequence; no account; hence, to do no force, to make no account of; not to heed. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
- Of force, of necessity; unavoidably; imperatively. "Good reasons must, of force, give place to better." --Shak.
- Plastic force (Physiol.), the force which presumably acts in the growth and repair of the tissues.
- Vital force (Physiol.), that force or power which is inherent in organization; that form of energy which is the cause of the vital phenomena of the body, as distinguished from the physical forces generally known.
- Syn: Strength; vigor; might; energy; stress; vehemence; violence; compulsion; coaction; constraint; coercion.
- Usage: Force, Strength. Strength looks rather to power as an inward capability or energy. Thus we speak of the strength of timber, bodily strength, mental strength, strength of emotion, etc. Force, on the other hand, looks more to the outward; as, the force of gravitation, force of circumstances, force of habit, etc. We do, indeed, speak of strength of will and force of will; but even here the former may lean toward the internal tenacity of purpose, and the latter toward the outward expression of it in action. But, though the two words do in a few cases touch thus closely on each other, there is, on the whole, a marked distinction in our use of force and strength. "Force is the name given, in mechanical science, to whatever produces, or can produce, motion." --Nichol. [1913 Webster]
- Thy tears are of no force to mollify This flinty man. --Heywood. [1913 Webster]
- More huge in strength than wise in works he was. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Adam and first matron Eve Had ended now their orisons, and found Strength added from above, new hope to spring Out of despair. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'No force'
- Force,
- Forced,
- Forcedly,
- Forceful,
- Forcefully,
- Forcing,
- In force,
- Of force,
- force from,
- force out,
- forcefulness,
- forces,
- forcing out,
- Animal force,
- By main force,
- Catabiotic force,
- Catalytic force,
- Central force,
- Centrifugal force,
- Centripetal force,
- Coercitive force,
- Coercive force,
- Component of force,
- Composition of forces,
- Conservation of force,
- Correlation of forces,
- Decomposition of forces,
- Deflective forces,
- Force and arms,
- Force pump,
- Forced draught,
- Forced march,
- Forcing bed,
- Forcing engine,
- Forcing fit,
- Forcing house,
- Forcing machine,
- Forcing main,
- Forcing pit,
- Forcing pump,
- Horizontal force,
- Land force,
- Leverage of a force,
- Line of force,
- Living force,
- Metabolic force,
- Moment of a force,
- Moving force,
- Parallel forces,
- Plastic force,
- Polar forces,
- Polygon of forces,
- Reconnoissance in force,
- Resolution of a force,
- Resultant force,
- Tangential force,
- Vital force,
- aerodynamic force,
- air force,
- armed force,
- armed forces,
- attractive force,
- brute force,
- color force,
- coriolis force,
- defence force,
- defense force,
- driving force,
- electromagnetic force,
- electromotive force,
- field of force,
- force 17,
- force back,
- force feed,
- force field,
- force function,
- force majeure,
- force of habit,
- force play,
- force unit,
- force upon,
- force-out,
- forced feeding,
- forced landing,
- forced meat,
- forced sale,
- gravitational force,
- ground forces,
- guerilla force,
- guerrilla force,
- join forces,
- labor force,
- life force,
- lorentz force,
- magnetic force,
- magnetomotive force,
- market forces,
- military force,
- moral force,
- naval forces,
- parallelogram of forces,
- paramilitary force,
- police force,
- reconnaissance in force,
- repulsive force,
- retarding force,
- sales force,
- security force,
- special forces,
- strong force,
- task force,
- weak force,
- work force,
- Air Force Academy,
- air force isr,
- air force officer,
- armed forces censorship,
- armed forces day,
- catholic reaction force,
- electrical line of force,
- electromotive force series,
- field of magnetic force,
- force-feed,
- force-land,
- forceful slashing vigorous,
- former armed forces,
- g-force,
- israeli defense force,
- loyalist volunteer force,
- magnetic line of force,
- magnetomotive force unit,
- private security force,
- royal air force,
- tour de force,
- u. s. air force,
- us air force,
- Air Force Academy, CO,
- Electro-motive force,
- air force research laboratory,
- air force space command,
- force per unit area,
- lautaro popular rebel forces,
- revolutionary armed forces of colombia,
- u. s. army special forces,
- united states air force,
- us air force academy,
- van der waal's forces,
- air force intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance,
- force-feed lubricating system,
- forces of umar al-mukhtar,
- umar al-mukhtar forces,
- united states air force academy,
- united states army special forces,
- united self-defense force of colombia