different between forge vs carve

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerban?, from Proto-Indo-European *gerb?- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian g?rbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (žr?bii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek ??????? (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??v/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??v/
  • Homophone: calve (Received Pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -??(?)v

Verb

carve (third-person singular simple present carves, present participle carving, simple past carved or (obsolete) corve, past participle carved or (archaic) carven or (obsolete) corven)

1. (archaic) To cut.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Galahad

     My good blade carves the casques of men.

2. To cut meat in order to serve it.

3. To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
4. (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
5. (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

   • […] who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
6. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

carve (plural carves)

1. (obsolete) A carucate.
   • 1862, Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland

     ... half a carve of arable land in Ballyncore, one carve of arable land in Pales, a quarter of arable land in Clonnemeagh, half a carve of arable land in Ballyfaden, half a carve of arable land in Ballymadran, ...

   • 1868, John Harland (editor), Wapentake of West Derby, in Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, (translating a Latin text c. 1320-46), page 31

     Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land.

2. The act of carving

Anagrams

• Caver, caver, crave, varec