Forge vs. Furnace

Forgenoun

Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.

Forgenoun

Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.

Forgenoun

The act of beating or working iron or steel.

Forgeverb

(metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.

Forgeverb

To form or create with concerted effort.

Forgeverb

To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.

Forgeverb

To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.

Forgeverb

(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.

Forgeverb

(sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

Forgenoun

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.

Forgenoun

The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.

Forgenoun

The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies.

Forgeverb

To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.

Forgeverb

To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.

Forgeverb

To coin.

Forgeverb

To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.

Forgeverb

To commit forgery.

Forgeverb

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.

Forgeverb

To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

Forgenoun

furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping

Forgenoun

a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering

Forgeverb

create by hammering;

Forgeverb

make a copy of with the intent to deceive;

Forgeverb

come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort;

Forgeverb

move ahead steadily;

Forgeverb

move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy

Forgeverb

make something, usually for a specific function;

Forgeverb

make out of components (often in an improvising manner);

Forge

A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located. The forge is used by the smith to heat a piece of metal to a temperature where it becomes easier to shape by forging, or to the point where work hardening no longer occurs.

Furnacenoun

(UK) An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics.

Furnacenoun

A device that provides heat for a building; a space heater.

Furnacenoun

(colloquial) Any area that is excessively hot.

Furnacenoun

(figurative) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.

Furnaceverb

To heat in a furnace.

Furnaceverb

To exhale like a furnace.

Furnacenoun

An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.

Furnacenoun

A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.

Furnacenoun

To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.

Furnacenoun

an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.

Furnace

A furnace, referred to as a heater or boiler in British English, is a heating unit used to heat up an entire building. Furnaces are mostly used as a major component of a central heating system.