forge
Meanings
noun
- A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
- A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
- The act of beating or working iron or steel.
- A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
verb
- To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
- To form or create with concerted effort.
- To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
- To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
verb
- 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.
- To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
name
- A surname from Old French.
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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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