Forge

Quick meaning: Forge is a noun meaning A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.

Meaning

A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.

More Meanings

1. A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
2. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
3. (computing) A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
4. (metallurgy, metalworking) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
5. To form or create with concerted effort.
6. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
7. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.

Example Sentences

On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne

In the greater bodies the forge was easy.

The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.

Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.

Word Forms

• forges
• forging
• forged

Synonyms for forge

Depending on context, synonyms include smithy, smithery, carve out, contrive, shape, spurt.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include smithy, mold, mould, hammer, spurt, form.

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