force vs power

force

noun
  • The ability to attack, control, or constrain. 

  • A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note. 

  • 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. 

  • 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) 

  • A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain. 

  • Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect. 

  • Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape. 

  • Legal validity. 

  • Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion. 

  • Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion. 

  • Synonym of police force 

  • Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing. 

  • Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning. 

  • A waterfall or cascade. 

verb
  • To compel (someone or something) to do something. 

  • To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.). 

  • To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress. 

  • 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. 

  • To violate (a woman); to rape. 

  • To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force. 

  • To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of. 

  • To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb). 

  • To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold. 

  • To stuff; to lard; to farce. 

power

noun
  • The ability to coerce, influence, or control. 

  • Physical force or strength. 

  • Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction). 

  • The people in charge of legal or political power, the government. 

  • A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy. 

  • The ability to do or undergo something. 

  • An influential nation, company, or other such body. 

  • Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw). 

  • In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme. 

  • A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time. 

  • The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image. 

  • The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true. 

  • The ability to affect or influence. 

  • A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): xⁿ, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x⨯x⨯⋯⨯x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent. 

  • Cardinality. 

  • Electricity or a supply of electricity. 

adj
  • Impressive. 

verb
  • To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device). 

  • To hit or kick something forcefully. 

  • To enable or provide the impetus for. 

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