forge
noun
- hearth used for heating metals
- workplace of a blacksmith
verb
- make, create
- create a counterfeit
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /fɔːd͡ʒ/ / /fɔɹd͡ʒ/ / /fo(ː)ɹd͡ʒ/
name
Etymology: From Old French forge (“forge, furnace”), a surname for someone who lived near or worked in a forge or smithy.
- A surname from Old French.
noun
Etymology: 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. Doublet of fabric and fabrica. Partially displaced English smithy. * Computing sense perhaps derived from the early SourceForge service, launched in 1999.
- A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
“Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge.”
- A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
- The act of beating or working iron or steel.
“In the greater bodies the forge was easy.”
- A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
“If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […]”
verb
Etymology: 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.
- 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.”
- 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.”
“Let's forge past that runner on the inside.”