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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.

forge (plural forges)

  1. 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.
  2. A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
    Synonyms: smithy, smithery
  3. 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.
  4. (computing) 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 […]

furnace or hearth — see also furnace

workshop

From Middle English forgen, from Anglo-Norman forger and Old French forgier, from Latin fabrico (“to frame, construct, build”). Doublet of fabricate.

forge (third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged)

  1. (metallurgy, metalworking) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
  2. To form or create with concerted effort.
    Synonym: carve out
    The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.
    • 2019 May 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      In The Last Guardian, a kidnapped boy forges an uneasy relationship with a frightening beast in order to survive.
  3. 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.
  4. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.

to form or create with concerted effort — see form,‎ create

to create a forgery of — see also falsify

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.

forge (third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged)

  1. (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.
    We decided to forge ahead with our plans even though our biggest underwriter backed out.
    • 1849, Thomas De Quincey, “Dream-Fugue”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:
      And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.
  2. (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.
    Let's forge past that runner on the inside.

to move forward gradually in the face of resistance

Inherited from Old French forge, from Inherited from Latin fabrica.

forge f (plural forges)

  1. (Troyen) a forge

Inherited from Old French forge, from earlier faverge, inherited from Latin fābrica. Doublet of fabrique, which was borrowed.

forge f (plural forges)

  1. forge (workshop)
  2. forge (furnace)

forge

  1. inflection of forger:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

forge f

  1. plural of forgia

From Old French forge, from earlier faverge, from Latin fabrica.

forge

  1. forge (workshop)

forge

  1. alternative form of forgen

From older faverge, from Latin fābrica.

forge oblique singular, f (oblique plural forges, nominative singular **forge, nominative plural forges)

  1. forge (workshop)