forge
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɔːd͡ʒ/Category:English 1-syllable words#FORGECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#FORGE
- (General American) IPA(key): /fɔɹd͡ʒ/Category:English 1-syllable words#FORGECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#FORGE
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /fo(ː)ɹd͡ʒ/Category:English 1-syllable words#FORGECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#FORGE
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /foəd͡ʒ/Category:English 2-syllable words#FORGECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#FORGE
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒCategory:Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)dʒ#FORGECategory:Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)dʒ/1 syllable#FORGE
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#FORGECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#FORGE forge, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#FORGE forge, early Old French faverge, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#FORGE fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge. Doublet of fabric and fabricaCategory:English doublets#FORGE. Computing sense perhaps derived from the early SourceForge service, launched in 1999.
Noun
forge (plural forges)Category:English lemmas#FORGECategory:English nouns#FORGECategory:English countable nouns#FORGECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FORGECategory:Pages with entries#FORGECategory:Pages with 6 entries#FORGE
- A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
- 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Hambleden:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#FORGE
- A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
- The act of beating or working iron or steel.
- 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 by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- In the greater bodies the forge was easy.Category:English terms with quotations#FORGE
- (computingCategory:en:Computing#FORGE) A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
- Synonym: software forge
- 2018, V. M. Brasseur, Forge Your Future with Open Source, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:
- If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […]Category:English terms with quotations#FORGE
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#FORGECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#FORGE forgen, from Anglo-NormanCategory:English terms derived from Anglo-Norman#FORGE forger and Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#FORGE forgier, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#FORGE fabrico (“to frame, construct, build”). Doublet of fabricateCategory:English doublets#FORGE.
Verb
forge (third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged)Category:English lemmas#FORGECategory:English verbs#FORGECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FORGECategory:Pages with entries#FORGECategory:Pages with 6 entries#FORGE
- (metallurgyCategory:en:Metallurgy#FORGE, metalworkingCategory:en:Metalworking#FORGE) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 451:
- On Mars's armor forged for proof eterneCategory:English terms with quotations#FORGE
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#FORGE
- To form or create with concerted effort.
- The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.Category:English terms with usage examples#FORGE
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
- Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.Category:English terms with quotations#FORGE
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 45–46:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#FORGE
- 2019 May 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian:
- In The Last Guardian, a kidnapped boy forges an uneasy relationship with a frightening beast in order to survive.Category:English terms with quotations#FORGE
- 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#FORGE
- To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
- 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 in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
- That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you.Category:English terms with quotations#FORGE
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
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.
Verb
forge (third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged)Category:English lemmas#FORGECategory:English verbs#FORGECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FORGECategory:Pages with entries#FORGECategory:Pages with 6 entries#FORGE
- (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
- The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.Category:English terms with usage examples#FORGE
- We decided to forge ahead with our plans even though our biggest underwriter backed out.Category:English terms with usage examples#FORGE
- 1849, Thomas De Quincey, “Dream-Fugue”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:
- And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.Category:English terms with quotations#FORGE
- (sometimes as forge ahead) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#FORGE
- Let's forge past that runner on the inside.Category:English terms with usage examples#FORGE
Translations
See also
Anagrams
Category:en:Crime#FORGEChampenois
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old FrenchCategory:Champenois terms inherited from Old French#FORGECategory:Champenois terms derived from Old French#FORGE forge, from Inherited from LatinCategory:Champenois terms inherited from Latin#FORGECategory:Champenois terms derived from Latin#FORGE fabrica.
Pronunciation
Noun
forge f (plural forges)Category:Champenois lemmas#FORGECategory:Champenois nouns#FORGECategory:Champenois entries with incorrect language header#FORGECategory:Champenois feminine nouns#FORGECategory:Pages with entries#FORGECategory:Pages with 6 entries#FORGE
- (Troyen) a forge
Derived terms
References
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#FORGECategory:French terms derived from Old French#FORGE forge, from earlier faverge, inherited from LatinCategory:French terms inherited from Latin#FORGECategory:French terms derived from Latin#FORGE fābrica. Doublet of fabriqueCategory:French doublets#FORGE, which was borrowed.
Pronunciation
Noun
forge f (plural forges)Category:French lemmas#FORGECategory:French nouns#FORGECategory:French countable nouns#FORGECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#FORGECategory:French feminine nouns#FORGECategory:Pages with entries#FORGECategory:Pages with 6 entries#FORGE
Descendants
Verb
forgeCategory:French non-lemma forms#FORGECategory:French verb forms#FORGECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#FORGECategory:Pages with entries#FORGECategory:Pages with 6 entries#FORGE
- inflection of forger:
Further reading
- “forge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
forge fCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#FORGECategory:Italian noun forms#FORGECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#FORGECategory:Pages with entries#FORGECategory:Pages with 6 entries#FORGE
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old FrenchCategory:Middle English terms borrowed from Old French#FORGECategory:Middle English terms derived from Old French#FORGE forge, from earlier faverge, from LatinCategory:Middle English terms derived from Latin#FORGE fabrica.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɔrd͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈfɔːrd͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈfoːrd͡ʒ(ə)/Category:Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation#FORGE
Noun
forgeCategory:Middle English lemmas#FORGECategory:Middle English nouns#FORGECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#FORGECategory:Pages with entries#FORGECategory:Pages with 6 entries#FORGE
- forge (workshop)
Descendants
References
- “fō̆rǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Verb
forgeCategory:Middle English alternative forms#FORGECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#FORGECategory:Pages with entries#FORGECategory:Pages with 6 entries#FORGE
- alternative form of forgen
Old French
Etymology
From older faverge, from LatinCategory:Old French terms inherited from Latin#FORGECategory:Old French terms derived from Latin#FORGE fābrica.
Noun
forge oblique singular, f (oblique plural forges, nominative singular forge, nominative plural forges)Category:Old French lemmas#FORGECategory:Old French nouns#FORGECategory:Old French feminine nouns#FORGECategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#FORGECategory:Old French feminine nouns#FORGECategory:Pages with entries#FORGECategory:Pages with 6 entries#FORGE
- forge (workshop)