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Forge
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- 1 A surname from Old French.
- 1 A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
"Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge."
- 2 a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering wordnet
- 3 A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
- 4 furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping wordnet
- 5 The act of beating or working iron or steel.
"In the greater bodies the forge was easy."
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- 6 A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
"If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […]"
- 1 To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
"On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne"
- 2 To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty. often
"The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush."
- 3 come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort wordnet
- 4 To form or create with concerted effort.
"The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters."
- 5 To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy. sometimes
"With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place."
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- 6 make a copy of with the intent to deceive wordnet
- 7 To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
"He had to forge his ex-wife's signature. The jury learned the documents had been forged."
- 8 make out of components (often in an improvising manner) wordnet
- 9 To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
"That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you."
- 10 make something, usually for a specific function wordnet
- 11 create by hammering wordnet
- 12 move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy wordnet
- 13 move ahead steadily wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge. Doublet of fabric and fabrica. Computing sense perhaps derived from the early SourceForge service, launched in 1999.
From Middle English forgen, from Anglo-Norman forger and Old French forgier, from Latin fabrico (“to frame, construct, build”). Doublet of fabricate.
Make way, move ahead, most likely an alteration of force, but perhaps from forge (n.), via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in reference to vessels.
From Old French forge (“forge, furnace”), a surname for someone who lived near or worked in a forge or smithy.
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