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Forge vs Malleate - What's the difference?

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Forge is a see also of malleate.


As verbs the difference between forge and malleate

is that forge is while malleate is (rare) to beat into shape with a hammer.

As an adjective malleate is

(zoology) possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.

forge

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) forge, early Old French faverge, from (etyl) (genitive fabri).

Noun

(wikipedia forge) (en noun)
  • 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
  • In the greater bodies the forge was easy.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) forger, from (etyl) forgier, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (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.
  • 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

  • (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.
  • The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.
    We decided to forge ahead with our plans even though our biggest underwriter backed out.
  • * De Quincey
  • And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.
  • (sometimes as forge ahead ) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
  • With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.
    Derived terms
    * forgery

    See also

    * fabricate * make up * blacksmith

    Anagrams

    * ----

    malleate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (zoology) Possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.
  • * 2009 , James H. Thorp & Alan P. Covich (eds.), Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates , 3rd ed., page 181
  • Malleate trophi are present in such common rotifers as Brachionus'', ''Keratella'', and ''Lecane .
  • (malacology, of a shell) Having a surface with shallow round indentations, resembling copper that has been hammered.
  • * 1919', Henry Augustus Pilsbry, "A Review of the Land Mollusks of the Belgian Congo", ''Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History'' ' 40 : 313
  • The spire has stronger rib-striæ than C. bequaert i; last whorl finely and closely malleate , with several weak spiral threads.

    Verb

    (malleat)
  • (rare) To beat into shape with a hammer.
  • * 1878 , James Milleson, The Embryonic System of Nature , page 12
  • Man is a mechanic, and works beautiful forms out of natural organisms. He cuts, bores, malleates , melts, casts in matrices, and spins, various articles.

    See also

    * forge * hammer