Forge

[fɔːdʒ] or [fɔrdʒ]

Definition

(noun.) a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering.

(noun.) furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping.

(verb.) make a copy of with the intent to deceive; 'he faked the signature'; 'they counterfeited dollar bills'; 'She forged a Green Card'.

(verb.) create by hammering; 'hammer the silver into a bowl'; 'forge a pair of tongues'.

(verb.) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy.

(verb.) move ahead steadily; 'He forged ahead'.

Checked by Leda--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.

(n.) The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.

(n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.

(n.) To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.

(n.) To coin.

(n.) To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.

(v. t.) To commit forgery.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

Edited by Hardy

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Smithy (for heavy work), iron-works.[2]. Furnace (to make iron more malleable), shingling-mill.

v. a. [1]. Beat (metal), form (by heating and hammering).[2]. Devise, invent, frame, coin.[3]. Falsify, counterfeit, fabricate.

Edited by Ellis

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Work, frame, produce, elaborate, fabricate, counterfeit, feign, falsify, form,shape, make_falsely

ANT:Shatter, batter, shiver, blast, fuse, detect, expose, verify, misconstrue,misfabricate, misshape

Checker: Salvatore

Definition

n. the workshop of a workman in iron &c.: a furnace esp. one in which iron is heated: a smithy: a place where anything is shaped or made.—v.t. to form by heating and hammering: to form: to make falsely: to fabricate: to counterfeit or imitate for purposes of fraud.—v.i. to commit forgery.—ns. Forge′man; Forg′er one who forges or makes one guilty of forgery; Forg′ery fraudulently making or altering any writing: that which is forged or counterfeited.—adj. Forg′etive (Shak.) that may forge or produce.—n. Forg′ing a piece of metal shaped by hammering: act of one who forges: a form of overreaching in which the horse strikes the fore shoe with the toe of the hind one clicking.

v.t. to move steadily on (with ahead).

Checker: Neil

Examples

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