forge
/fɔːd͡ʒ/US/fɔɹd͡ʒ/
forge noun: a furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
Noun
forge (plural forges)
- A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
- Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Hambleden
- A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
- The act of beating or working iron or steel.
- In the greater bodies the forge was easy.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...
- A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
- If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […]2018, V. M. Brasseur, Forge Your Future with Open Source, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- software forge
Verb (1)
forge (third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged)
- To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
- On Mars's armor forged for proof eternec. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- 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.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC
- To form or create with concerted effort.
- 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.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- carve out
- 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.
- That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you.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...
Verb (2)
forge (third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged)
- 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.
- And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.1849, Thomas De Quincey, “Dream-Fugue”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
- 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.
Proper noun capitalized: Forge
Forge (plural Forges)
- A surname from Old French.
forge meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
forge in Hindi
- furnace or hearth
- भट्ठी bhaṭṭhī, भट्ठा bhaṭṭhā
- workshop
- लोहारख़ाना lohārxānā
forge in Tamil
- பழுக்கக் காய்ச்சி வடிவமை, பொய் புனை, போலி ஒப்பமிடு, முன்னேறு, அடித்து உருவேற்று, வடிப்பி
forge in Marathi
- फोर्ज
forge in Urdu
- workshop
- لوہار خانَہ lohār xānā
More languagesFewer languages
- forge in Bengali
- কামারশালা, কামারের হাপর, কারখানা, কামারগিরি
- forge in Telugu
- ఫోర్జ్, ఫోర్జరీ చెయ్యడానికి
- forge in Malayalam
- ആല, രൂപപ്പെടുത്തിയെടുക്കുക
- forge in Kannada
- ನಕಲಿ ದಾಖಲೆ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸು, ಸುಳ್ಳು ಸಹಿ ಹಾಕು, ಆಕಾರ ಕೊಡು, ಮುನ್ನಡೆ
- forge in Punjabi
- ਪਹਾਰਾ pahārā, ਗਰਮ ਕਰਕੇ ਘੜਨਾ garam karke ghaṛnā, ਜਾਲ੍ਹਸਾਜ਼ੀ ਕਰਨਾ jālhsāzī karnā, ਪ੍ਰਤਿਰੋਧ ਬਾਵਜੂਦ ਅੱਗੇ ਵਧਣਾ prtirodh bāvjūd agge vadhṇā
- forge in Gujarati
- ભઠ્ઠી bhaṭhṭhī
- forge in Assamese
- আফৰ aphor
- forge in Nepali
- फोर्ज, फोर्ज गर्नुहोस्, फोर्ज गर्न
- forge in Tagalog
- batbatan, panday
- forge in Arabic
- وَرْشَة حِدَادَة waršat ḥidāda
- forge in Malay
- meniru
- forge in Persian
- آهنگرخانه âhangar-xâne
- forge in Thai
- โรงตีเหล็ก, ตี dtii, ปลอม bplɔɔm, ปลอมแปลง
- forge in Vietnamese
- lò rèn, lò luyện kim, xưởng luyện kim, rèn
Examples of forge in a sentence
- 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.1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 45–46:
- In The Last Guardian, a kidnapped boy forges an uneasy relationship with a frightening beast in order to survive.2019 May 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian:
Synonyms of forge
Forms of forge
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | forges |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | forges |
| present participle | forging |
| past participle | forged |
| past | forged |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Forges |
Origin of forge
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.
From Middle English forgen, from Anglo-Norman forger and Old French forgier, from Latin fabrico (“to frame, construct, build”). Doublet of fabricate.
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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Questions about forge
- What does forge mean?
- Forge means a furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
- What is forge in Hindi?
- Forge in Hindi is भट्ठी (bhaṭṭhī), भट्ठा (bhaṭṭhā), लोहारख़ाना (lohārxānā). See Forge meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use forge in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is forge?
- Forge can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce forge?
- Forge is pronounced /fɔːd͡ʒ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of forge?
- The plural of forge is forges.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: forge (page history and authors); Forge (page history and authors); forge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); forge (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); forge (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); forge (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); forge (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); forge (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ભઠ્ઠી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); forge (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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