Falsify vs Forge - What's the difference?
falsify | forge |
To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
* Spenser
To misrepresent.
To prove to be false.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
To counterfeit; to forge.
(finance) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
(obsolete) To baffle or escape.
* Samuel Butler
(obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.
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.
* Francis Bacon
(lb) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Mars's armor forged for proof eterne
*
*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
To form or create with concerted effort.
:
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Those names that the schools forged , and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.
* (1809-1892)
*: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 , , (Hudibras)
*:That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you.
(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.
* De Quincey
(sometimes as forge ahead ) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
As verbs the difference between falsify and forge
is that falsify is to alter so as to make false; to make incorrect while forge is to shape a metal by heating and hammering.As a noun forge is
furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.falsify
English
Verb
(en-verb)- to falsify a record or document
- The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.
- By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope.
- Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.
- to falsify coin
- (Story)
- (Daniell)
- For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe
- to falsify one's faith or word
- (Sir Philip Sidney)
Derived terms
* falsifiable * falsifiability * falsification * falsificationism * falsifierExternal links
* *forge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) forge, early Old French faverge, from (etyl) (genitive fabri).Noun
(wikipedia forge) (en noun)- In the greater bodies the forge was easy.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) forger, from (etyl) forgier, from (etyl) .Verb
Etymology 3
Make way, move ahead'', most likely an alteration of ''force , but perhaps from , via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in referrence to vessels.Verb
- The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.
- We decided to forge ahead with our plans even though our biggest underwriter backed out.
- And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.
- With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.
