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Shingle vs Forge - What's the difference?

shingle | forge |

As verbs the difference between shingle and forge

is that shingle is to cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles or shingle can be (industry) to hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy while forge is .

As a noun shingle

is a small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building or shingle can be a punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking or shingle can be small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.

shingle

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) scincle, from (etyl) scindula.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
  • * Ray
  • I reached St. Asaph, where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles.
  • A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
  • A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
  • See also

    * shake * tile

    Verb

    (shingl)
  • To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
  • To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
  • Derived terms

    * shingler * shingly * to hang out one's shingle

    Etymology 2

    From dialectal (etyl)

    Verb

    (shingl)
  • (industry) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
  • To lash with a shingle.
  • ''The imp's bottom was shingled black and blue

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking
  • (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment
  • Etymology 3

    Probably cognate to the (etyl) , both imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles.

    Noun

    (-)
  • Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
  • * '>citation
  • References

    * * (CorPun) & [http://www.corpun.com/picpar.htm

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    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

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