The noun force has 10 senses (first 9 from tagged texts)
1. (347) military unit, military force, military group, force -- (a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men")
2. (137) power, force -- (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. (133) force -- ((physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration")
4. (133) force, personnel -- (group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens")
5. (99) force -- (a powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them")
6. (80) violence, force -- (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. (54) force, forcefulness, strength -- (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. (31) force -- (a group of people having the power of effective action; "he joined forces with a band of adventurers")
9. (25) effect, force -- ((of a law) having legal validity; "the law is still in effect")
10. force out, force-out, force play, force -- (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; "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force")
Overview of verb force
The verb force has 9 senses (first 8 from tagged texts)
1. (48) coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force -- (to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information")
2. (17) impel, force -- (urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate)
3. (13) push, force -- (move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner")
4. (8) force, thrust -- (impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him")
5. (3) wedge, squeeze, force -- (squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner")
6. (2) force, drive, ram -- (force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad")
7. (2) force -- (do forcibly; exert force; "Don't force it!")
8. (1) pull, draw, force -- (cause to move by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled")
9. storm, force -- (take by force; "Storm the fort")