Plunge vs Forge - What's the difference?
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the act of plunging or submerging
a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
(figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse
(slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation
(obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty
(label) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.
To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
To baptize by immersion.
(label) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge one's self.
To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
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(label) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
* (Joseph Hall) (1574-1656)
To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
* (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
To overwhelm, overpower.
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.
Plunge is a related term of forge.
As verbs the difference between plunge and forge
is that plunge is (label) to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse while forge is .As a noun plunge
is the act of plunging or submerging.plunge
English
Noun
(en noun)- to take the water with a plunge
- plunge in the sea
Verb
(plung)- some wild colt, which flings and plunges
- Plunged and gravelled with three lines of Seneca.
Anagrams
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* * English ergative verbsforge
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.