Definition of "forge"

forge¹

/fɔːd͡ʒ/

noun
plural forges
1. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
2. A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
3. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
  Quotations
  In the greater bodies the forge was easy.
  1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]
4. (computing) A Web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
  Quotations
  If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […]
  2018, V. M. Brasseur, Forge Your Future with Open Source

forge²

/fɔːd͡ʒ/

verb
third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged
1. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
  Quotations
  On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne
  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, [Act II, scene ii], line 451
  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.
  1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […]
2. To form or create with concerted effort.
  Quotations
  Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.
  1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […]
  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.
  1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], pages 45–46
  In The Last Guardian, a kidnapped boy forges an uneasy relationship with a frightening beast in order to survive.
  2019 May 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian‎
3. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
4. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
  Quotations
  That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you.
  1662, [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: University Press, 1905

forge³

/fɔːd͡ʒ/

verb
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.
  Quotations
  And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.
  1849, Thomas De Quincey, “Dream-Fugue”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
2. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

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