Word Form vs Forge - What's the Difference?
Definition as Noun
- furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping
- a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
Definition as Noun
- the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
Definition as Verb
- move ahead steadily
- make a copy of with the intent to deceive
- make out of components (often in an improvising manner)
- create by hammering
- come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
- make something, usually for a specific function
- move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy
Examples
- "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"
- "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"
- "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues"
- "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
- "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
- "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"