forge > define

Create by hammering.
- usage: "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues"
- synonyms: hammer
Make a copy of with the intent to deceive.
- usage: "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"
- synonyms: fake, counterfeit
Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort.
- usage: "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
- synonyms: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate
Move ahead steadily.
- usage: "He forged ahead"
Move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy.
- synonyms: spurt, spirt
Make something, usually for a specific function.
- usage: "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
- synonyms: shape, form, work, mold, mould
Make out of components (often in an improvising manner. )
- usage: "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"
- synonyms: fashion

(n.) To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
(n.) The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
(n.) A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy.
(v.t.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
(n.) The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
(v.t.) To commit forgery.
(v.t.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead.
(n.) To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature or a signed document.
(n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
(n.) To coin.

by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary