force

/fɔːs/

US pronunciation

American sound/fɔːs/

force

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Aw vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

US voice -> force

Myanmar meaning

(n) ခွန်အား။ လက်နက်ကိုင်တပ်ဖွဲ့။ အမိန့်အာဏာ။ (v) ဇွတ်အတင်းခိုင်းသည်။ (v) အတင်းအကျပ်ခိုင်း

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force / fↄ:s / n

၁။ [U] (က) ခွန်အား။ အား။ အရှိန်။ the force of the blow / explosion / collision ❍ The force of his fall was broken (ie reduced) by the straw matting. ❍ They used brute force to break open the door. (ခ) အင်အားသုံးမှု။ အကြမ်းဖက်မှု။ renounce the use of force ❍ The rioters were taken away by force.
၂။ [U] (က) စွမ်းပကား။ အစွမ်း။ အဟုန်။ the full force of her argument ❍ He gave up smoking by sheer force of will. ❍ Through force of circumstance our plans had to be changed. အခြေအနေ ပယောဂကြောင့် ကျွန်တော်တို့ အစီအစဉ် တွေ ပြောင်းလိုက်ရတယ်။ (ခ) အာဏာ သက်ရောက်မှု။ These guidelines do not have the force of law.
၃။ [C] စွမ်းအား။ (တွန်း)အား။ အင်အား။ market (ie economic) forces ❍ What is the driving force behind his writing? ❍ the forces of evil ❍ She's a force to be reckoned with (ie a person to be treated seriously).
၄။ [C, U] (in scientific use) အား။ magnetic forces ❍ The force of gravity pulls things towards the earth's centre.
၅။ [C] အား။ အင်အား။ စွမ်းအား။ the forces of nature. ❍ STRENGTH
၆။ [ C usu sing ] လေတိုက်နှုန်း အတိုင်းအတာ။ a force 9 gale.
၇။ [CGp] တပ်။ တပ်ဖွဲ့။ အင်အားစု။ a sales/labour force.
၈။ [CGp] တပ်။ တပ်ဖွဲ့။ the police force ❍ peace-keeping forces ❍ the armed forces of a country (ie its army, navy and air force).
၉။ the force [sing] (Brit ) ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့။ join the force.
၁၀။ the forces [pl] (က) (Brit ) ကြည်း၊ ရေ၊ လေတပ်။ စစ်တပ်။ (ခ) (US ) ကြည်းတပ်။ See also TASK FORCE, TOUR DE FORCE
v
၁။ အတင်းအကျပ်၊ အဓမ္မ၊ မရမက၊ မဖြစ်မနေ၊ ဇွတ်အတင်း လုပ်သည်၊ ခိုင်းသည်။
The thief forced her to hand over the money.
❍ He forced himself to speak to her. ❍ force a confession out of sb. ❍ The president was forced into resigning/ to resign.
၂။ အတင်း၊ အတင်းအဓမ္မ၊ ဇွတ်၊ မရမက တိုးသည်၊ ဝင်သည်၊ လုပ်သည်စသည်။ ထိုးသိပ် ထည့်သည်။ force an entry. ❍ force a way in / out/ through. ❍ force one's way through a crowd ❍ force clothes into a bag ❍ (fig ) The President forced the bill through Congress.
၃။ အတင်းဖွင့်သည် စသည်။ force (open) a door / lock/ window / safe.
၄။ အကျပ်ကိုင်သည်။ အတင်းအဓမ္မ လုပ် သည်။ force a decision ❍ Be patient — we mustn't force matters. ❍ If they still haven't made up their minds, we'll have to force the issue.
၅။ ဖျစ်ညှစ်၍…သည်။ လုပ်ကြံ၍…သည်။ He forced a smile. ❍ That argument was certainly forced (ie not natural or convincing).
၆။ (အသီး၊ အပင် စသည်တို့ သာမန်ထက် မြန်မြန်ဖွံ့ဖြိုးအောင်) ဖန်တီးသည်။ forced rhubarb.
❏ bring sth / come into force [IDM ] (ဥပဒေ စသည်) အာဏာတည်စေသည်၊ တည်သည်။ When do the new safety rules come into force?
❏ force sth back [PHRV ] မျိုသိပ်ထားသည်။ အောင့်အည်း ထားသည်။ force back one's tears.
❏ forced adj
၁။ လုပ်ကြံထားသော။ လုပ်။ forced laughter ❍ I found his reasoning rather forced.
၂။ အတင်းအကျပ်။ မရမက။ forced repatriation.
❏ forced labour n [U] အတင်းအကျပ်စေခိုင်းမှု။ အဓမ္မ လုပ်အား။ ချွေးတပ်ဆွဲခြင်း။
❏ forced landing n (အကြောင်းတစ်စုံတစ်ရာကြောင့်) လေယာဉ် ဇွတ်ထိုးဆင်းခြင်း။
❏ forced march n အရေးပေါ် မနားမနေ ခရီးဝေး ချီတက်ခြင်း။
❏ force sth down [PHRV ]
၁။ အတင်းမျိုချသည်။ I didn't feel like eating but I managed to force a sandwich down.
၂။ လေယာဉ်ကို ဇွတ်ဆင်းခိုင်းသည်။
❏ force sb's hand [IDM ] အကျပ်ကိုင်သည်။
❏ (from/out of) force of habit [IDM ] အကျင့်ပါနေ၍။ It's force of habit that gets me out of bed at 6.15 each morning.
❏ force sth on sb [PHRV ] အတင်းအကျပ်ပြုသည်။ jorce one's ideas / company / attention on sb ❍ Higher taxes were forced on the people.
❏ force the pace [IDM ] အခြားပြိုင်ဘက်များ ခြေကုန် လက်ပန်းကျသွားအောင် ပြေးပွဲစသည်တွင် ဒုန်းစိုင်း ပြေးသည်။
❏ in force [IDM ]
၁။ တပ်တောင်တာ ဗိုလ်ထုဖြင့်။ အလုံး အရင်းနှင့်။ Protesters turned up in force.
၂။ အကျိုး သက်ရောက်မှုရှိသော။ အာဏာတည်သော။ The new safety regulations are now in force.

More examples

They accused the police of using excessive force during the arrest.
[by force] : The army took control of the region by force.
You can achieve more by persuasion than by brute force (=physical force alone).
His body swung round with the force of the blow.
The office block took the full force of the blast.
We have convinced people by the force of our argument.
[force of personality] : He persuaded them to re-elect him by sheer force of personality.
The social and political forces that shape people’s lives
For years he was a dominant force in Spanish politics.
[force for] : The UN is a force for stability.
The most obvious force for change in industry is technical advance.
[driving force] : She was certainly the driving force behind the campaign.
The force of gravity
Electromagnetic forces
A force 9 gale
Both countries have now withdrawn their forces from the area.
A UN peacekeeping force
An effective sales force
Bill was a senior police officer, who joined the force back in 1982.

Synonyms

power, strength, energy, might, vigor, ability, apply, arm, armed forces, army, assault, authority, battalion, bear down, bear hard on, bind, bite, blackmail, blast, body, break down, break in, break open, bring pressure to bear upon, brunt, burden, burst, bust open, capability, cause, cell, charge, choke, clout, coerce, coercion, cogency, command, compel, competence, compulsion, concuss, conscript, conscription, constrain, constrait, contract, corps, crack open, crew, defile, demand, detachment, determination, division, dominance, draft, drag, dragoon, drive, duress, dynamism, effect, effectiveness, efficacy, effort, emphasis, enforce, enforcement, enjoin, exact, exaction, extort, extortion, fierceness, fix, forcefulness, full head of steam, fury, guard, gumption, guts, horsepower, horses, host, impact, impel, impetus, impose, impress, impressiveness, impulse, inflict, influence, insist, intensity, intestinal fortitude, jimmy, legion, limit, make, mental power, military organization, momentum, move, muscle, necessitate, obligation, oblige, obtrude, occasion, order, overcome, pains, patrol, persistence, persuasiveness, physical energy, pin down, point, potency, potential, pow, press, pressure, pressurize, prise open, prize, propel, pry, puissance, punch, push, put screws to, put squeeze on, rape, ravish, regiment, require, requirement, reserves, restrict, sandbag, sapience, shop, shotgun, shove, sinew, sock, soldiers, speed, spoil, squad, squadron, squeeze, steam, stimulus, strain, stress, strong arm

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