different between create vs forge

English

Alternative forms

• creäte (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English createn, from Latin cre?tus, the perfect passive participle of cre?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?i??e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

create (third-person singular simple present creates, present participle creating, simple past and past participle created)

1. (transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
   • 1829, Thomas Tully Crybbace, An Essay on Moral Freedom:

     [...] God created man a moral agent.

   Synonym: generate

   Antonyms: annihilate, extinguish

   1. (especially of a god) To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
   2. To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc.

      Synonym: invent

      Antonym: imitate

2. (transitive) To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.

   crop failures created food shortages and high prices; his stubbornness created many difficulties
3. (transitive) To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.

4. (intransitive) To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.

5. (transitive) In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
6. (Britain, intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
   • 1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren

     'What's the time?' she said. 'I must fly. Miss'll start creating.'

Conjugation

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

create (comparative more create, superlative most create)

1. (obsolete) Created, resulting from creation.

Translations

Further reading

• create at OneLook Dictionary Search
• create in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• create in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• create on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• & cetera, Cartee, cerate, ecarte, tracee, écarté

Italian

Verb

create

1. second-person plural indicative present of creare
2. second-person plural imperative of creare

Anagrams

• cerate, recate, tacere

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kre?a?.te/, [k?e?ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kre?a.te/, [k?????t??]

Verb

cre?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cre?

Participle

cre?te

1. vocative masculine singular of cre?tus

Middle English

Adjective

create

1. Alternative form of creat

Verb

create

1. Alternative form of creat

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??d??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo(?)?d??/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo?d??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

forge (plural forges)

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.

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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

2. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.

   • On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne
3. To form or create with concerted effort.

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

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Geraint and Enid

     […] do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.
4. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.

5. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras

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

Derived terms

• forgery

Translations

Etymology 3

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.

Verb

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 (published 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.

Translations

See also

• fabricate
• make up
• blacksmith

Anagrams

• gofer

French

Etymology

From Old French forge, from earlier faverge, inherited from Latin f?brica. Doublet of fabrique, which was borrowed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???/

Noun

forge f (plural forges)

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

Descendants

• ? Catalan: forja
• ? Franco-Provençal: fôrge
• ? Galician: forxa
• ? Italian: forgia
• ? Portuguese: forja
• ? Romanian: forj?
• ? Spanish: forja

Verb

forge

1. first-person singular present indicative of forger
2. third-person singular present indicative of forger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of forger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of forger
5. second-person singular imperative of forger

Further reading

• “forge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• fforge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?rd?(?)/, /?f??rd?(?)/

Noun

forge

1. forge (workshop)

Descendants

• English: forge
• Scots: forge

References

• “f??r?e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

forge

1. Alternative form of forgen

Old French

Etymology

From older faverge, from Latin f?brica.

Noun

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

1. forge (workshop)

Descendants

• French: forge
  • ? Catalan: forja
  • ? Franco-Provençal: fôrge
  • ? Galician: forxa
  • ? Italian: forgia
  • ? Portuguese: forja
  • ? Romanian: forj?
  • ? Spanish: forja
• ? Middle English: forge, fforge
  • English: forge
  • Scots: forge