'Forge' definitions:

Definition of 'forge'

From: WordNet
noun
Furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping
noun
A workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering [syn: forge, smithy]
verb
Create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues" [syn: forge, hammer]
verb
Make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card" [syn: forge, fake, counterfeit]
verb
Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge]
verb
Move ahead steadily; "He forged ahead"
verb
Move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy [syn: forge, spurt, spirt]
verb
Make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" [syn: shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge]
verb
Make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks" [syn: fashion, forge]

Definition of 'Forge'

From: GCIDE
  • Forge \Forge\ (f[=o]rj), n. [F. forge, fr. L. fabrica the workshop of an artisan who works in hard materials, fr. faber artisan, smith, as adj., skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. ? soft, tender. Cf. Fabric.]
  • 1. A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy. [1913 Webster]
  • In the quick forge and working house of thought. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • In the greater bodies the forge was easy. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • American forge, a forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously. --Raymond.
  • Catalan forge. (Metal.) See under Catalan.
  • Forge cinder, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary.
  • Forge rolls, Forge train, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars.
  • Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools.
  • Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Forge'

From: GCIDE
  • Forge \Forge\, v. i. [See Forge, v. t., and for sense 2, cf. Forge compel.]
  • 1. To commit forgery. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Naut.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
  • And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Forge'

From: GCIDE
  • Forge \Forge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forged; p. pr. & vb. n. Forging.] [F. forger, OF. forgier, fr. L. fabricare, fabricari, to form, frame, fashion, from fabrica. See Forge, n., and cf. Fabricate.]
  • 1. To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal. [1913 Webster]
  • Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent. [1913 Webster]
  • Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To coin. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document. [1913 Webster]
  • That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
  • Forged certificates of his . . . moral character. --Macaulay.
  • Syn: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Forge'

From: GCIDE
  • Forge \Forge\, v. t. (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'forge'

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