forge
see also: Forge
Pronunciation
Forge
Etymology
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see also: Forge
Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /fɔːd͡ʒ/
- (America) IPA: /fɔɹd͡ʒ/
- (rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) IPA: /fo(ː)ɹd͡ʒ/
- (non-rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) IPA: /foəd͡ʒ/
From Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica, from faber ("workman in hard materials, smith") (genitive fabri).
Nounforge (plural forges)
- A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
- A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
- Synonyms: smithy, smithery
- The act of beating or working iron or steel.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC ↗:
- In the greater bodies the forge was easy.
- (computing) A Web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
- 2018, V. M. Brasseur, Forge Your Future with Open Source:
- If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […]
- French: forge
- German: Schmiedeofen, Esse, Schmiedefeuer
- Italian: forgia
- Portuguese: frágua, forja
- Russian: горн
- Spanish: fragua, forja
- French: forge
- German: Schmiede
- Italian: fucina
- Portuguese: forja
- Russian: ку́зница
- Spanish: fragua, forja
From Middle English forgen, from Anglo-Norman forger and Old French forgier, from Latin fabrico.
Verbforge (forges, present participle forging; simple past and past participle forged)
(metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering. - c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene ii], line 451:
- On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC ↗:
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. […]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
- To form or create with concerted effort.
- The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC ↗:
- Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC ↗, pages 45–46 ↗:
- O purblind race of miserable men, / How many among us at this very hour / Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. / By taking true for false, or false for true.
- 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.
- To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
- 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC ↗:
- That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you.
- French: forger
- German: schmieden, warmformen, formen, ausschmieden
- Italian: forgiare, formare
- Portuguese: forjar
- Russian: кова́ть
- Spanish: forjar
- French: falsifier, contrefaire
- German: fälschen, klittern
- Italian: falsificare
- Portuguese: forjar
- Russian: подде́лывать
- Spanish: falsificar
Make way, move ahead, most likely an alteration of force, but perhaps from forge (n.), via notion of steady hammering at something.
Verbforge (forges, present participle forging; simple past and past participle forged)
- (often as forge ahead) 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.
- The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.
- We decided to forge ahead with our plans even though our biggest underwriter backed out.
- (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
- With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.
- German: sich Bahn brechen, vorankämpfen, drängen, vorandrängen, vordrängen, vorwärts kommen, vorankommen, vorwärtskommen, nach vorn drängen, vorwärtskämpfen, vorkämpfen, vorwärts kämpfen
Forge
Etymology
From Old French forge, a surname for someone who lived near or worked in a forge or smithy.
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