Forge vs Spoof - What's the difference?
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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.
* (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.
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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.
A hoax.
A light parody.
* 2000 , Stanley Green, Hollywood Musicals Year by Year ,
* 2003 , Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia ,
Nonsense.
(UK) A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held.
Fake.
* 1998 , George McKay (editor), Notes on Contributors'', ''DiY Culture: Party & Protest in Nineties Britain ,
* 2004 , Paul Gravett, Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics ,
To gently satirize.
* 1971 , Harvey R. Deneroff, Harlow, Jean'', entry in Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul S. Boyer (editors), ''Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary , Volume 2,
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To deceive.
(computing) To falsify.
* 2003 , Tao Peng, Christopher Leckie, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Detecting Distributed Denial of Service Attacks by Sharing Distributed Beliefs'', Rei Safavi-Naini, Jennifer Seberry (editors), ''Information Security and Privacy: 8th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2003, Proceedings , LNCS 2727,
* 2007 , Wes Kussmaul, The Sex Life of Tables: What Happens When Databases about You Mate ,
(Australian, New Zealand, slang) Semen.
As verbs the difference between forge and spoof
is that forge is while spoof is to gently satirize or spoof can be (australian|new zealand|slang) to ejaculate, to come.As a noun spoof is
a hoax or spoof can be (australian|new zealand|slang) semen.As an adjective spoof is
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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.
Derived terms
* forgerySee also
* fabricate * make up * blacksmithAnagrams
* ----spoof
English
Etymology 1
From the proprietary name of a game involving deception.American Heritage Dictionary
Noun
(wikipedia spoof) (en noun)page 177,
- On Broadway, where it opened in 1949, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'' was a spoof''' of the madcap Twenties which gave Carol Channing her first starring role; on the screen, it was an up-to-date ' spoof of sex which gave Marilyn Monroe her first starring role in a musical.
page 331,
- The final piece of the country puzzle is found at the corner of Brisbane Street and Kable Avenue, where the Hands of Fame' cornerstone bears the palm-prints of more country greats. A glorious '''spoof , the Noses of Fame memorial, can be savoured over a beer at the ''Tattersalls Hotel on Peel Street.
Synonyms
* (parody) parody, satire, send-up / sendupAdjective
(-)page 300,
- His most recent art project, ‘Consuming Desire’, explored men?s relationship with pornography, using invisible art strategies (a spoof' sex shop and a ' spoof porn CD-ROM), media interventions (TV/ radio and press exposure), and therapeutic work with men addicted to pornography.
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- Below left: Despite appearances, Hajime Furukawa?s wacky I Don?t Like Friday'' was never aimed at children, but ran as a spoof sex-education English course in ''Business Jump .
Verb
(en verb)page 137,
- Her best film is generally considered to be Bombshell (1933), in which she spoofed her own career as a Hollywood sex goddess.
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- However, MULTOPS assumes that packet rates between two hosts are proportional and the IP addresses are not spoofed .
page 83,
- In fact they are more important, because identities in the online world can be easily spoofed'.You may have heard that a digital certificate prevents such identity ' spoofing .