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FORGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering

Synonyms:

forge; smithy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("forge" is a kind of...):

work; workplace (a place where work is done)

Meronyms (parts of "forge"):

anvil (a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering)

drop forge; drop hammer; drop press (device for making large forgings)

Derivation:

forge (create by hammering)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("forge" is a kind of...):

furnace (an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

Example:

excogitate a way to measure the speed of light

Synonyms:

contrive; devise; excogitate; forge; formulate; invent

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "forge" is one way to...):

create by mental act; create mentally (create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a copy of with the intent to deceive

Example:

She forged a Green Card

Synonyms:

counterfeit; fake; forge

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "forge" is one way to...):

re-create (create anew)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

forger (someone who makes copies illegally)

forgery (criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud)

forgery (a copy that is represented as the original)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make out of components (often in an improvising manner)

Example:

She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks

Synonyms:

fashion; forge

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "forge" is one way to...):

make (make by shaping or bringing together constituents)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "forge"):

tie (make by tying pieces together)

craft (make by hand and with much skill)

sew; tailor; tailor-make (create (clothes) with cloth)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make something, usually for a specific function

Example:

Work the metal into a sword

Synonyms:

forge; form; mold; mould; shape; work

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "forge" is one way to...):

create from raw material; create from raw stuff (make from scratch)

Verb group:

process; work; work on (shape, form, or improve a material)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "forge"):

model; mold; mould (form in clay, wax, etc)

sculpt; sculpture (create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material)

coil; hand-build; handbuild (make without a potter's wheel)

throw (make on a potter's wheel)

cast; mold; mould (form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold)

sinter (cause (ores or powdery metals) to become a coherent mass by heating without melting)

remold; reshape (shape again or shape differently)

roughcast (shape roughly)

hill (form into a hill)

mound (form into a rounded elevation)

preform (form into a shape resembling the final, desired one)

preform (form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand)

beat (shape by beating)

puddle (subject to puddling or form by puddling)

stamp (form or cut out with a mold, form, or die)

grind (shape or form by grinding)

machine (turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery)

cut out (form and create by cutting out)

layer (make or form a layer)

chip (form by chipping)

swage; upset (form metals with a swage)

carve (form by carving)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Create by hammering

Example:

forge a pair of tongues

Synonyms:

forge; hammer

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "forge" is one way to...):

beat (shape by beating)

Verb group:

hammer (beat with or as if with a hammer)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "forge"):

foliate (hammer into thin flat foils)

dropforge (forge with a dropforge)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

forge (a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering)

forger (someone who operates a forge)

forging (shaping metal by heating and hammering)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy

Synonyms:

forge; spirt; spurt

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "forge" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 7

Meaning:

Move ahead steadily

Example:

He forged ahead

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "forge" is one way to...):

advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Credits

 Context examples: 

It also demonstrates that the deep, dense, inner layers of a star, where heavy elements and radioactive isotopes are forged, can be churned up and cast into space by stellar collisions.

(Stellar Corpse Reveals Origin of Radioactive Molecules, ESO)

We were out of the Trades, and the Ghost was forging ahead barely a knot an hour.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Could they have forged a medical certificate?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"But where is the use of going on," I asked, "when you are probably preparing some iron blow of contradiction, or forging a fresh chain to fetter your heart?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The chemical elements in these grains are forged inside stars and are scattered across the cosmos when the stars die, most spectacularly in supernova explosions, the final fate of short-lived, massive stars.

(Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars, ESO)

It's like a medieval cauldron forging stars.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)

Then he led him by dark passages to a smith’s forge, took an axe, and with one blow struck an anvil into the ground.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Mars will want you to forge forward, and Saturn will blink a yellow light and impede you from rushing ahead.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Phosphorus is formed in supernovae when massive stars explode at the end of their lives, but the researchers found that the typical supernova may not provide the right conditions to forge the element.

(Finding Alien Life Unlikely Due to Lack of Phosphorus in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

HEEP has, on several occasions, to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief, systematically forged, to various entries, books, and documents, the signature of Mr. W.; and has distinctly done so in one instance, capable of proof by me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)