forge
1. furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping
• Hypernyms:
furnace
2. a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
• Syn:
smithy
• Hypernyms:
workplace, work
• Part Meronyms:
anvil, drop forge, drop hammer, drop press
1. create by hammering (Freq. 1)
- hammer the silver into a bowl
- forge a pair of tongues
• Syn:
hammer
• Derivationally related forms:
hammer (for: hammer), forger, forging
• Hypernyms:
beat
• Hyponyms:
foliate, dropforge
• Verb Group:
hammer
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort (Freq. 1)
- excogitate a way to measure the speed of light
• Syn:
invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate
• Derivationally related forms:
formula (for: formulate), formulation (for: formulate), excogitation (for: excogitate), excogitator (for: excogitate), deviser (for: devise), devising (for: devise), devisal (for: devise), contrivance (for: contrive), inventive (for: invent), invention (for: invent), inventor (for: invent)
• Hypernyms:
create by mental act, create mentally
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. make a copy of with the intent to deceive (Freq. 1)
- he faked the signature
- they counterfeited dollar bills
- She forged a Green Card
• Syn:
fake, counterfeit
• Derivationally related forms:
counterfeiter (for: counterfeit), counterfeit (for: counterfeit), fake (for: fake), fakery (for: fake), forger, forgery
• Hypernyms:
re-create
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. move ahead steadily
- He forged ahead
• Hypernyms:
advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
5. move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy
• Syn:
spurt, spirt
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
6. 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
• Syn:
shape, form, work, mold, mould
• Derivationally related forms:
mold (for: mold), form (for: form), formation (for: form), shape (for: shape), shaper (for: shape), shaping (for: shape)
• Hypernyms:
create from raw material, create from raw stuff
• Hyponyms:
carve, swage, upset, chip, layer,
cut out, machine, grind, stamp, puddle, beat,
preform, mound, hill, roughcast, reshape, remold,
sinter, cast, mold, mould, throw, handbuild,
hand-build, coil, sculpt, sculpture, model
• Verb Group:
work, work on, process
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
7. make out of components (often in an improvising manner)
- She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks
• Syn:
fashion
• Derivationally related forms:
fashioning (for: fashion)
• Hypernyms:
make
• Hyponyms:
tie, craft, sew, tailor, tailor-make
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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