Create vs Forge - What's the difference?
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To put into existence.
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To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
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(archaic) Created, resulting from creation.
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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
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*: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.
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*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Those names that the schools forged , and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.
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*:do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.
To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
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To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
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*: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.
Create is a related term of forge.
As verbs the difference between create and forge
is that create is (lb) while forge is .create
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(creat)Well-connected Brains, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content",
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace.
Synonyms
* (to put into existence) generate * inventAntonyms
* (to put into existence) annihilate, extinguish * imitateAdjective
(en adjective)- Hearts create of duty and zeal.
External links
* * * (wikipedia "create")Anagrams
* English transitive verbs ----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.