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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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pattern
English
Etymology
From earlier patten, paterne, from Middle English patron (“patron; example”), from Old French patron, from Medieval Latin patr?nus (“patron”). Doublet of patron.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pat(?)n/, [?pa?(?)n]
- (US) IPA(key): /?pæt??n/, [?pæ??n]
- Rhymes: -æt?(r)n
Noun
pattern (plural patterns)
- Model, example.
- Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline. [from 14th c.]
- 1923, ‘President Wilson’, Time, 18 Jun 1923:
- There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern.
- 1923, ‘President Wilson’, Time, 18 Jun 1923:
- Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar. [from 15th c.]
- 1793, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana, 19 March:
- Well! the King of France died pardoning & pitying all those who had tortured his Soul & Body, a great Pattern for us all.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.16:
- The Platonic Socrates was a pattern to subsequent philosophers for many ages.
- 1793, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana, 19 March:
- (now rare) A copy. [from 15th c.]
- (now only numismatics) A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted. [from 16th c.]
- A representative example. [from 16th c.]
- (US) The material needed to make a piece of clothing. [from 17th c.]
- (textiles) The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.
- (metalworking, dated) A full-sized model around which a mould of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mould without damage.
- (computing) A text string containing wildcards, used for matching.
- There were no files matching the pattern
*.txt
.
- There were no files matching the pattern
- Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline. [from 14th c.]
- Coherent or decorative arrangement.
- A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements. [from 16th c.]
- 2003, Valentino, ‘Is there a future in fashion's past?’, Time, 5 Feb 2003:
- On my way to work the other day, I stopped at a church in Rome and saw a painting of the Madonna. The subtle pattern of blues and golds in the embroidery of her dress was so amazing that I used it to design a new evening dress for my haute couture.
- 2003, Valentino, ‘Is there a future in fashion's past?’, Time, 5 Feb 2003:
- A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect. [from 19th c.]
- 2011, Rachel Cooke, The Observer, 19 Jun 2011:
- He lifted the entire joint or fowl up into the air, speared on a carving fork, and sliced pieces off it so that they fell on the plate below in perfectly organised patterns.
- 2011, Rachel Cooke, The Observer, 19 Jun 2011:
- The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun. [from 19th c.]
- A particular sequence of events, facts etc. which can be understood, used to predict the future, or seen to have a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship. [from 19th c.]
- 1980, ‘Shifting Targets’, Time, 6 Oct 1980:
- The three killings pointed to an ugly new shift in the enduring pattern of violence in Northern Ireland: the mostly Protestant Ulster police, or those suspected of affiliation with them, have become more prominent targets for the I.R.A. than the British troops.
- 2003, Kate Hudson, The Guardian, 14 Aug 2003:
- Look again at how the US and its allies behaved then, and the pattern is unmistakable.
- 1980, ‘Shifting Targets’, Time, 6 Oct 1980:
- (linguistics) An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.
- (computing, music) A sequence of notes, percussion etc. in a tracker module, usable once or many times within the song.
- A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements. [from 16th c.]
Synonyms
- (1): original
- (1): stencil
- (2): tessellation
- (3): category
- (4): cycle
- (5): similarity
- See also Thesaurus:model
Antonyms
- antipattern
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pattern (third-person singular simple present patterns, present participle patterning, simple past and past participle patterned)
- To apply a pattern.
- To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
- 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great
- [A temple] patterned […] from that which Adam reared in Paradise.
- 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great
- To follow an example.
- To fit into a pattern.
- (transitive) To serve as an example for.
Synonyms
- model
- categorize
Translations
References
- pattern on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- reptant
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