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Force can be a verb or a noun.

force used as a verb:

  1. To exert violence, compulsion, or constraint upon or against a person or thing.
  2. To cause to occur, overcoming inertia or resistance.
  3. To violate (a woman); to rape.
  4. 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.

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

force used as a noun:

  1. Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
  2. A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body which is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)
  3. A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
    "police force"
  4. The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
    "show of force"
  5. 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.
  6. A fictional semi-sentient phenomenon that certain individuals can call upon for assistance as in in the Star Wars stories. See also Force.
  7. Legal validity.
  8. Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
  9. A waterfall or cascade

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is force?

As detailed above, 'force' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: police force
  2. Noun usage: show of force

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of force are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of force, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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