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Meaning of 'forge' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Forge [ 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.
- The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
- The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
- To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
- To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
- To coin.
- To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.
2 . Forge [ v. t.]
- To commit forgery.
- 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.
- To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

Meaning of 'forge' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . forge [ v]
Meaning (1):
- come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
Example in sentence:
  • excogitate a way to measure the speed of light
Meaning (2):
- create by hammering
Example in sentence:
  • forge a pair of tongues;
  • hammer the silver into a bowl
Meaning (3):
- make something, usually for a specific function
Example in sentence:
  • Form cylinders from the dough;
  • shape a figure;
  • She molded the rice balls carefully;
  • Work the metal into a sword
Meaning (4):
- make a copy of with the intent to deceive
Example in sentence:
  • he faked the signature;
  • She forged a Green Card;
  • they counterfeited dollar bills
Meaning (5):
- move ahead steadily
Example in sentence:
  • He forged ahead
Meaning (6):
- make out of components (often in an improvising manner)
Example in sentence:
  • She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks

Nearby Words:

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