What is "forge"

Forge \Forge\, v. i. [See Forge, v. t., and for sense 2, cf. Forge compel.]

1. To commit forgery.

2. (Naut.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead.
   --Totten.

   And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.
   --De Quincey.

Forge \Forge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forged; p. pr. & vb. n. Forging.] [F. forger, OF. forgier, fr. L. fabricare, fabricari, to form, frame, fashion, from fabrica. See Forge, n., and cf. Fabricate.]

1. To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.

   Mars's armor forged for proof eterne.
   --Shak.

2. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.

   Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.
   --Locke.

   Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.
   --Tennyson.

3. To coin. [Obs.]
   --Chaucer.

4. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.

   That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you.
   --Hudibras.

   Forged certificates of his . . . moral character.
   --Macaulay.

   Syn: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify.

Forge \Forge\ (f[=o]rj), n. [F. forge, fr. L. fabrica the workshop of an artisan who works in hard materials, fr. faber artisan, smith, as adj., skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. ? soft, tender. Cf. Fabric.]

1. A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy.

   In the quick forge and working house of thought.
   --Shak.

2. The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.

3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies. [Obs.]

   In the greater bodies the forge was easy.
   --Bacon.

   American forge, a forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously.
   --Raymond.

   Catalan forge. (Metal.) See under Catalan.

   Forge cinder, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary.

   Forge rolls, Forge train, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars.

   Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools.

   Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.

Forge \Forge\, v. t. (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

late 14c., "a smithy," from Old French forge "forge, smithy" (12c.), earlier faverge, from Latin fabrica "workshop, smith's shop," hence also "a trade, an industry;" also "a skillful production, a crafty device," from faber (genitive fabri) "workman in hard materials, smith" (see fabric). As the heating apparatus itself (a furnace fitted with a bellows), from late 15c. Forge-water (1725), in which heated iron has been dipped, was used popularly as a medicine in 18c.

1769 (with an apparent isolated use from 1610s), "make way, move ahead," of unknown origin, perhaps an alteration of force (v.), but perhaps rather from forge (n.), via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in reference to vessels.

early 14c., "to counterfeit" (a letter, document, etc.), from Old French forgier "to forge, work (metal); shape, fashion; build, construct; falsify" (12c., Modern French forger), from Latin fabricari "to frame, construct, build," from fabrica "workshop" (see forge (n.)). Meaning "to counterfeit" (a letter, document, or other writing) is from early 14c.; literal meaning "to form (something) by heating in a forge and hammering" is from late 14c. in English, also used in Middle English of the minting of coins, so that it once meant "issue good money" but came to mean "issue spurious (paper) money." Related: Forged; forging.

Etymology 1 n. 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 The act of beating or working iron or steel. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (lb en metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering. 2 To form or create with concerted effort. 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. Etymology 3

vb. 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. 2 (sometimes as '''forge ahead''') To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

1. n. furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping

2. a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering [syn: smithy]

1. v. create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues" [syn: hammer]

2. make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card" [syn: fake, counterfeit]

3. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate]

4. move ahead steadily; "He forged ahead"

5. move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy [syn: spurt, spirt]

6. make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the riceballs carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" [syn: shape, form, work, mold, mould]

7. make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks" [syn: fashion]

A forge is the hearth where the blacksmith keeps the fire for heating metals to be formed by plastic deformation, usually with hammer on an anvil.

Forge may also refer to:

Forge is a third-person massively multiplayer online combat game developed and released by Dark Vale Games on December 4, 2012. The game received mixed reviews that praised its uniqueness in its gameplay, and criticized a lack of imagination in its visual presentation. It was developed as a way to play end-game MMORPG player versus player combat, without the hours of work to get there.

The game has now been removed from Steam. Those who purchased it when it was available will have it remain in their Steam library, but because the online service is no longer running, it is unplayable.

A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located. The forge is used by the smith to heat a piece of metal to a temperature where it becomes easier to shape by forging, or to the point where work hardening no longer occurs. The metal (known as the "workpiece") is transported to and from the forge using tongs, which are also used to hold the workpiece on the smithy's anvil while the smith works it with a hammer. Sometimes such as when hardening steel or cooling the work so that it may be handled with bare hands; the workpiece is transported to the slack tub, which rapidly cools the workpiece in a large body of water. The slack tub also provides water to control the fire in the forge.

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He shared a romantic relationship with Storm and a brief affair with Mystique, which led him to associate with the X-Men and thus enhancing the technology at the X-Mansion. He was also a member of the mutant group called X-Factor.

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For software developers it is a place to host, among others, source code (often version-controlled), bug database and documentation for their projects. For users, a forge is a repository of computer applications.

Software forges have become popular, and have proven successful as a software development model for a large number of software projects.

The term forge refers to a common prefix or suffix adopted by various platforms created after the example of SourceForge (such as GForge and FusionForge). This usage of the word stems from the metalworking forge, used for shaping metal parts.