different between push vs forge

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English pushen, poshen, posson, borrowed from Middle French pousser (Modern French pousser) from Old French poulser, from Latin pulsare, frequentative of pellere (past participle pulsus) "to beat, strike". Doublet of pulsate. Displaced native Middle English thrucchen ("to push"; > Modern English thrutch) (from Old English þryccan (“to push”)), Middle English scauten (“to push, thrust”) (from Old Norse skota), Middle English thuden, thudden (“to push, press, thrust”) (from Old English þ?dan, þyddan (“to thrust, press, push”)). Partially displaced Middle English schoven (“to push, shove”) (from Old English scofian), Middle English schuven (“to shove, push”) (from Old English sc?fan, sc?ofan (“to shove, push, thrust”))

Pronunciation

• enPR: po?osh, IPA^(key): /p??/
• (Appalachian) IPA^(key): [pu?]
• IPA^(key): [p???]
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

push (third-person singular simple present pushes, present participle pushing, simple past and past participle pushed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.

2. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
   • December 7, 1710, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner, Number 18

     We are pushed for an answer.

   • December 22, 1711, letter to The Spectator

     Ambition […] pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honour and reputation to the actor.

3. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.

   • to push his fortune

4. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).

5. (intransitive) To continually exert oneself in order to achieve a goal.
6. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.

   (= he's nearly sixty years old)

7. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.

8. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
9. To make a higher bid at an auction.
10. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
11. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
12. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
13. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
14. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.

    • If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, […] the ox shall be stoned.

15. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
16. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at the same time (a foul shot).

Synonyms

• (transitive: apply a force to (an object) so it moves away): press, shove, thrutch
• (continue to attempt to persuade): press, urge
• (continue to promote): press, advertise, promote
• (come close to): approach, near
• (intransitive: apply force to an object so that it moves away): press, shove, thring
• (tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents): bear down

Antonyms

• (apply a force to something so it moves away): draw, pull, tug
• (put onto a stack): pop

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• pedal pushers
• push it

Translations

Noun

push (countable and uncountable, plural pushes)

1. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.

2. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.

3. A great effort (to do something).

4. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
5. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
6. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
7. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
8. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.

9. (slang, Britain, obsolete, now chiefly Australia) A particular crowd or throng or people.
   • 1891, Banjo Paterson, An Evening in Dandaloo

     Till some wild, excited person

     Galloped down the township cursing,

     "Sydney push have mobbed Macpherson,

     Roll up, Dandaloo!"

   • 1994, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage 2015, p. 37:

     My father […] was soon as unambiguously Australian as any other member of the rough Rugby pushes that in the years before the Great War made up the mixed and liverly world of South Brisbane.

10. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same time

Derived terms

• give someone the push
• push factor

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably French poche. See pouch.

Pronunciation

Noun

push (plural pushes)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.
   • Template:RQ:Bacon Of Praise

     a Push rise upon his Nose

References

• push in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• push at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• PHUs, Phus, shup

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *puša, from *puksja, from Proto-Indo-European *pewk- (“covered with hair, bushy”). Related to Sanskrit ????? (púccha, “tail”), Proto-Slavic *pux? (“down”).

Noun

push m (indefinite plural pusha, definite singular pushi, definite plural pushat)

1. light hair, fluff, down, nap, pile

References

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