forge : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: forge	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for forge
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
forge n furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering Synonym(s): forge, smithy v create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues" Synonym(s): forge, hammer make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card" Synonym(s): forge, fake, counterfeit come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" Synonym(s): invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge move ahead steadily; "He forged ahead" move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy Synonym(s): forge, spurt, spirt make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" Synonym(s): shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks" Synonym(s): fashion, forge
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forge \Forge\, n. [F. forge, fr. L. fabrica the workshop of an artisan who works in hard materials, fr. faber artisan, smith, as adj., skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. [?] soft, tender. Cf. {Fabric}.] 1. 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. In the quick forge and working house of thought. --Shak. 2. The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill. 3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies. [Obs.] In the greater bodies the forge was easy. --Bacon. {American forge}, a forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously. --Raymond. {Catalan forge}. (Metal.) See under {Catalan}. {Forge cinder}, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary. {Forge rolls}, {Forge train}, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars. {Forge wagon} (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. {Portable forge}, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forge \Forge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Forged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forging}.] [F. forger, OF. forgier, fr. L. fabricare, fabricari, to form, frame, fashion, from fabrica. See {Forge}, n., and cf. {Fabricate}.] 1. To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal. Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. --Shak. 2. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent. Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use. --Locke. Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. --Tennyson. 3. To coin. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 4. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document. That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you. --Hudibras. Forged certificates of his . . . moral character. --Macaulay. Syn: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forge \Forge\, v. t. (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forge \Forge\, v. i. [See {Forge}, v. t., and for sense 2, cf. {Forge} compel.] 1. To commit forgery. 2. (Naut.) 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. --Totten. And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. --De Quincey.