forge.
THE SHORT MEANINGTo shape or create with purpose.
Ideas & craftMeaning & usage
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.
The act of beating or working iron or steel.
A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
Where this word comes from
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. Partially displaced English smithy. * Computing sense perhaps derived from the early SourceForge service, launched in 1999.
To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
To form or create with concerted effort.
The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English forgen, from Anglo-Norman forger and Old French forgier, from Latin fabrico (“to frame, construct, build”). Doublet of fabricate.
To move forward slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily, especially in the face of resistance or difficulty.
The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.
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.
Let's forge past that runner on the inside.
Where this word comes from
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.
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