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Are "forging ahead" and "forging a check" from the same forge?
There are many things you can do with the word forge in English. You can forge ahead (which, confusingly enough, can mean either "move slowly and steadily" or "move with a sudden increase of speed"), you can forge a check or a painting (make something fake), or you can forge a sword (make something real). The senses that relate to creating something (either real or fake) come from the same Latin word that gives us fabric, which is fabricare ("to fashion, construct"). We are not certain where the “movement” senses of forge come from, except insofar as we know that they are from a different origin than the “creation” senses of the word.
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Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
He is taken back to the forge, where Annatar cuffs him to the workbench.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
Peter Sullivan, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
In the world of social impact, where corporate responsibility intersects with purposeful leadership, Jeremy Brown has forged a unique path.
—Afdhel Aziz, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Forge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forge. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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forge
1 of 3 noun
forge
2 of 3 verbforge
3 of 3 verbNoun
Middle English forge "workshop where metal is heated and shaped," from early French forge (same meaning), from Latin fabrica "workshop for making things of metal"
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forge
intransitive verb
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