Found 3 items, similar to forge.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: forge gembleng
English → English (WordNet) Definition: forge forge n 1: 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] forge v 1: 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Forge Forge \Forge\, v. i. [See Forge, v. t., and for sense 2, cf. Forge compel.] 1. To commit forgery. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent. [1913 Webster] Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use. --Locke. [1913 Webster] Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 3. To coin. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster] Forged certificates of his . . . moral character. --Macaulay. Syn: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] In the quick forge and working house of thought. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] In the greater bodies the forge was easy. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Forge \Forge\, v. t. (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward. [1913 Webster]