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forge

Pronunciation: /fɔːd͡ʒ/

The English word “forge” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
  2. A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
  3. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
  4. A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.

verb

  1. To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
  2. To form or create with concerted effort.
  3. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
  4. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
  5. To move forward slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily, especially in the face of resistance or difficulty.
  6. To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

Etymology

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.

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