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forge
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)
- Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
- Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
- 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)
- (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
- On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne
- 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.
- To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
- 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.
- 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
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)
- (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.
- (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)
- forge (workshop)
- forge (furnace)
Descendants
- ? Catalan: forja
- ? Franco-Provençal: fôrge
- ? Galician: forxa
- ? Italian: forgia
- ? Portuguese: forja
- ? Romanian: forj?
- ? Spanish: forja
Verb
forge
- first-person singular present indicative of forger
- third-person singular present indicative of forger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of forger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of forger
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
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mould
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /mo?ld/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /m??ld/
- Rhymes: -??ld
Etymology 1
Via Middle English molde, moulde and Old French molde, from Latin modulus.
Noun
mould (countable and uncountable, plural moulds)
- (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“hollow form or matrix”)
Translations
Verb
mould (third-person singular simple present moulds, present participle moulding, simple past and past participle moulded)
- (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“to shape in a mould”)
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English mowlde, noun use and alteration of mowled, past participle of moulen, mawlen (“to grow moldy”), from Old Norse mygla (compare dialectal Danish mugle), from Proto-Germanic *mugl?n?, diminutive and denominative of *mukiz (“soft substance”) (compare Old Norse myki, mykr (“cow dung”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mewk- (“slick, soft”). More at muck and meek.
Noun
mould (countable and uncountable, plural moulds)
- (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“growth of tiny fungi”)
Translations
Verb
mould (third-person singular simple present moulds, present participle moulding, simple past and past participle moulded)
- (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“to cause to become mouldy”)
Translations
Etymology 3
From Old English molde. Cognate with Old High German molta, Old Norse mold and Gothic ???????????????????? (mulda).
Noun
mould (plural moulds)
- loose soil, esp when rich in organic matter
- (poetic) the earth
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