Foundry vs. Forge

Foundrynoun

A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.

Foundrynoun

The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.

Foundrynoun

A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry.

Foundrynoun

The act, process, or art of casting metals.

Foundrynoun

The buildings and works for casting metals.

Foundrynoun

factory where metal castings are produced

Foundry

A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal into a mold, and removing the mold material after the metal has solidified as it cools.

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.