| forge | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. forge | furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping. |
| ~ furnace | an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. forge, smithy | a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering. |
| ~ anvil | a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering. |
| ~ drop forge, drop hammer, drop press | device for making large forgings. |
| ~ workplace, work | a place where work is done.; "he arrived at work early today" |
| v. (creation) | 3. forge, hammer | create by hammering.; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues" |
| ~ hammer | beat with or as if with a hammer.; "hammer the metal flat" |
| ~ beat | shape by beating.; "beat swords into ploughshares" |
| ~ foliate | hammer into thin flat foils.; "foliate metal" |
| ~ dropforge | forge with a dropforge.; "drop-force the metal" |
| v. (creation) | 4. counterfeit, fake, forge | make a copy of with the intent to deceive.; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card" |
| ~ re-create | create anew.; "Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale" |
| v. (creation) | 5. contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent | come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort.; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" |
| ~ create by mental act, create mentally | create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands. |
| v. (motion) | 6. forge | move ahead steadily.; "He forged ahead" |
| ~ advance, march on, move on, progress, go on, pass on | move forward, also in the metaphorical sense.; "Time marches on" |
| v. (motion) | 7. forge, spirt, spurt | move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy. |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| v. (creation) | 8. forge, form, mold, mould, shape, work | make something, usually for a specific function.; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" |
| ~ carve | form by carving.; "Carve a flower from the ice" |
| ~ swage, upset | form metals with a swage. |
| ~ chip | form by chipping.; "They chipped their names in the stone" |
| ~ layer | make or form a layer.; "layer the different colored sands" |
| ~ cut out | form and create by cutting out.; "Picasso cut out a guitar from a piece of paper" |
| ~ machine | turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery. |
| ~ grind | shape or form by grinding.; "grind lenses for glasses and cameras" |
| ~ stamp | form or cut out with a mold, form, or die.; "stamp needles" |
| ~ puddle | subject to puddling or form by puddling.; "puddle iron" |
| ~ beat | shape by beating.; "beat swords into ploughshares" |
| ~ create from raw material, create from raw stuff | make from scratch. |
| ~ preform | form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand. |
| ~ preform | form into a shape resembling the final, desired one. |
| ~ mound | form into a rounded elevation.; "mound earth" |
| ~ hill | form into a hill. |
| ~ roughcast | shape roughly. |
| ~ remold, reshape | shape again or shape differently. |
| ~ sinter | cause (ores or powdery metals) to become a coherent mass by heating without melting. |
| ~ mould, mold, cast | form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold.; "cast a bronze sculpture" |
| ~ throw | make on a potter's wheel.; "she threw a beautiful teapot" |
| ~ hand-build, handbuild, coil | make without a potter's wheel.; "This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels" |
| ~ work on, work, process | shape, form, or improve a material.; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal" |
| ~ sculpt, sculpture | create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material.; "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice" |
| ~ mold, mould, model | form in clay, wax, etc.; "model a head with clay" |
| v. (creation) | 9. fashion, forge | make out of components (often in an improvising manner).; "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks" |
| ~ make | make by shaping or bringing together constituents.; "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones" |
| ~ tie | make by tying pieces together.; "The fishermen tied their flies" |
| ~ craft | make by hand and with much skill.; "The artisan crafted a complicated tool" |
| ~ tailor-make, sew, tailor | create (clothes) with cloth.; "Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?" |
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