Password vs Forgot - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between password and forgot

is that password is (computing|transitive) to protect with a password while forgot is (forget).

is a word used to gain admittance or to gain access to information; watchword.

(wikipedia password)

(en noun)

A word used to gain admittance or to gain access to information; watchword.

(computing) A string of characters used to log in to a computer or network, to access a level in a video game, etc.

* (word used to gain admittance) watchword * passcode * (abbreviation) pw, pwd, pword, pass

(en verb)

(computing) To protect with a password.

(head)

(forget)