force

/fɔːrs/

意味: 力、勢力、軍隊

例文: Kai opened the door with too much force.
　　  カイはドアを力任せに開けた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: force majeure(不可抗力), force field(力場), brute force(力ずく)

定義: 物や人を動かすための力やエネルギーのことです。力を使って何かをすることや、誰かに何かをさせることも含まれます。物理的な力だけでなく、精神的な圧力や影響力も指すことがあります。

forceは約6,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a powerful effect or influence
Noun: (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
Noun: physical energy or intensity
Noun: group of people willing to obey orders
Noun: a unit that is part of some military service
Noun: an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
Noun: one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
Noun: a group of people having the power of effective action
Noun: (of a law) having legal validity
Noun: 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
Verb: to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :
Verb: urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
Verb: move with force,
Verb: impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
Verb: squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
Verb: force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
Verb: cause to move by pulling
Verb: do forcibly; exert force
Verb: take by force

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The wind can force the door open.(風がドアを強く押し開けた。)
She used force to move the heavy box.(彼女は力を使って重い箱を動かした。)
They respect the force of nature.(彼らは自然の力を尊重している。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them
Noun: force equals mass times acceleration
Noun: he hit with all the force he could muster
Noun: it was destroyed by the strength of the gale
Noun: a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man
Noun: a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens
Noun: he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men
Noun: he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one
Noun: the mysterious presence of an evil power
Noun: may the force be with you
Noun: the forces of evil
Noun: he joined forces with a band of adventurers
Noun: the law is still in effect
Noun: the shortstop got the runner at second on a force
Verb: She forced him to take a job in the city
Verb: He squeezed her for information
Verb: He pushed the table into a corner
Verb: She forced her diet fads on him
Verb: I squeezed myself into the corner
Verb: She rammed her mind into focus
Verb: He drives me mad
Verb: draw a wagon
Verb: pull a sled
Verb: Don’t force it!
Verb: Storm the fort

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): coerce, draw, drive, effect, force, force out, force play, force-out, forcefulness, hale, impel, military force, military group, military unit, personnel, power, pressure, pull, push, ram, squeeze, storm, strength, thrust, violence, wedge

Antonyms(反意語): pull, push

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): act, aggression, causal agent, cause, compel, influence, intensity, move, organization, penetrate, physical phenomenon, putout, social group, thrust, unit, validity

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): acoustic phenomenon, act on, adhocracy, administrative unit, advance, affiliate, agent, agitate, alliance, alternate, antagonize, anticipate, association, atmospheric phenomenon, attack, badness, beat, begin, behave, blow, blue, body, boost, boundary layer, brandish, break, bureaucracy, catalyst, cause of death, center, change hands, chaos, chase away, chop, circulate, clamor, cloud, coact, coerce, combination, come close, come to the fore, company, condemn, condescend, conduction, congregation, continue, cope, court, create, crew, cut, dally, dandle, danger, dare, dead hand, deal, decalescence, defense, den, deputation, destiny, determine, deus ex machina, dig, disarrange, dislocate, dispatch, displace, do well, drag, drive, drop, effect, egotrip, electrical phenomenon, electricity, energy, enforce, engage, engender, engine, enterprise, establishment, evade, event, exert, expel, exteriorize, facilitate, family, federation, ferocity, fiefdom, field, fielder’s choice, fifth column, finish up, fire brigade, first cause, flick, flotation, fluctuate, foray, force, force out, fringe, funnel, gang, gathering, general delivery, get around to, girl scouts, glide, go, go ahead, go off half-cocked, grey, grip, guard, herd, hierarchy, hit, honeycomb, host, hustle, hysteresis, immerse, impel, ingrain, initiate, institution, instrumentality, intensive care unit, interact, interaction, interest, interpenetrate, interrupt, jab, jar, jewry, kin, kith, klavern, lateralize, launch, lift, line of defense, line organization, lord it over, lower, machine, make, make a point, make bold, maneuver, meat grinder, mechanical phenomenon, member, military unit, minority, misbehave, mobilize, moiety, motivate, movement, musical organization, nature, nonalignment, nongovernmental organization, occasion, ooze through, opacity, operator, optical phenomenon, organization, organized crime, outfit, overturn, participate, partner, party, peace corps, percolate, perform, permeate, perpetrate, person, phylum, pierce, platoon, play, play it by ear, plundering, poke into, political system, political unit, polity, pool, pour, power, press down, pressure, probe, professional organization, propagation, propel, prosecute, provoke, pull, pulse, pump, punch, push, put, quango, race, raise, rake, ram, rampage, react, reciprocate, reflection, refraction, relocate, repeat, resolution, resolving power, resonance, revolving door, reward, rock, roll, rout out, run, rush, sacrifice, saltate, satisfice, scan, sector, send, separate, set, set about, shame, shift, shoulder, side, singsong, sink, slide, sling, slip, sneak, sneak in, society, spill, stab, stampede, station, stir, storm, strike, subculture, supernatural, surface tension, surprise, swing, syzygy, take, take back, take care, take time by the forelock, tammany hall, task force, team, theurgy, top, transfer, translate, transmit, transparency, transport, tribe, troop, try, tug, tunnel, turbulence, turn, union, unit, unseat, unwind, uproot, upstage, use, vehemence, violence, vital principle, volunteer, wait, walk, wash, wedge, whistle, wind, wing, woo, woosh, work, working group

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): abduct, adduct, aerodynamic force, affinity, air unit, armor, army unit, attract, attraction, bludgeon, bring oneself, brunt, centrifugal force, centripetal force, cohesion, command, commando, compress, contingent, coriolis force, domestic violence, drag, dragoon, drift, drive, duress, echelon, enemy, energy, guard, guerrilla force, haganah, haul, headquarters, heartbeat, impact, influence, israeli defense force, jam, jerk, jostle, juggernaut, legion, life force, lifeblood, line personnel, lorentz force, magnetomotive force, management personnel, military, military personnel, military police, military service, militia, moloch, moment, momentum, mujahidin, muscle into, naval unit, nose, nudge, paramilitary, patrol, phalanx, pluck, police, press, pressure, propulsion, pull, pull back, push, push aside, push out, push up, rank and file, reaction, repel, republican guard, repulsion, riot, road rage, security force, shove, spearhead, squeeze for, staff, steamroller, stick, stress, stretch, task force, terrorize, thrust, toe, topple, torsion, trip wire, tug, turn up the heat, twitch, wheel, winch, work force, yank

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: coercion, coercive, draw, drawing, drive, force, forceful, forcible, impulsion, impulsive, pressure, pull, puller, pulling, push, pusher, pushing, ram, squeeze, storm, violent, wedge

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anger, fear, negative