Forge

Noun

 * 1) furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape
 * 2) workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them
 * 3) A counterfeit

Verb

 * 1) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
 * 2) To form or create with concerted effort.
 * The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.
 * 1) 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.
 * 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.
 * 1) (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.

Adjectives for Forge
gleaming; sounding; flashing.

Adverbs for Forge
laboriously; dexterously; artfully; audaciously; deliberately; daringly; subtly.

Synonyms for Forge
reconstruct, built, form, contrive, counterfeit, falsify, invent, fabricate, coin, produce, imitate, design, fashion, make, feign, reproduce, duplicate, transcribe, copy.

Derived terms

 * forgery

Thesaurus
act like, affect, assume, beat, blacksmith shop, block out, bloomery, borrow, build, carve, cast, chisel, chorus, coin, concoct, construct, cook up, copy, counterfeit, create, crib, cut, devise, ditto, do, do like, echo, efform, fabricate, fake, falsify, fantasize, fashion, figure, fix, form, formalize, found, foundry, frame, fudge, furnace, go like, hatch, hew, hoke, hoke up, imitate, invent, knead, knock out, lay out, lick into shape, make, make like, make up, manufacture, metalworks, mint, mirror, model, mold, mould, plagiarize, pound, put together, reecho, reflect, repeat, reproduce, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, sculpt, sculpture, set, shape, shove the queer, simulate, smelter, smithery, smithy, stamp, steel mill, steelworks, stithy, tailor, thermoform, think up, trump up, turn out, utter, work

Etymology 1
From forge:, early Old French faverge:, from  fabrica:, from faber: (genitive fabri:). The verb is from forger:, from  forgier:, from fabrico:.

Etymology 2
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 referrence to vessels.

Noun

 * Catalan: farga, forja
 * Danish: esse
 * Dutch: smeltoven, smidsvuur
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German: Schmiedeofen
 * Polish: kuźnia
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ässja


 * Catalan: farga
 * Croatian: kovačnica
 * Danish: smedje, smedeværksted
 * Dutch: smidse, smelterij, smederij
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Latvian: kalve, smēde
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish: kuźnia
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ceàrdach
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: smedja


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * French:

Verb

 * Catalan: forjar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: smede
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: forĝi
 * Finnish:


 * French: forger
 * German:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: smida


 * Danish: forfalske
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,


 * German:
 * Polish: fałszować, podrabiać
 * Russian: подделывать
 * Swedish: förfalska


 * Dutch: met moeite/langzaam vorderen


 * Polish: posuwać się

Anagrams

 * gofer