What's the difference between forge and hammer?

Forge


Definition:

  • (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.
  • (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.) The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
  • (n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
  • (n.) To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
  • (n.) To coin.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Like most anthems it’s intended to create unity in the face of adversity, coming from a time when America was a new country trying to forge its identity.
  • (2) I want Monday’s meeting to be the start of a new grown-up relationship between the devolved administrations and the UK government – one in which we all work together to forge the future for everyone in the United Kingdom,” she said.
  • (3) In the Punjab, the eastern province, the movement has been able to forge ad hoc links with fragmented sectarian groups or freelance operators who have split away from bigger, more established organisations that are under close watch by intelligence agencies, the officials said.
  • (4) This is where he would infuriate the neighbours by kicking the football over his house into their garden; this is Old Street, where his friends would wait in their car to whisk him off to basketball without his parents knowing; Pragel Street, where physiotherapists spotted him being wheeled in a Tesco shopping trolley by friends and suggested he took up basketball; the Housing Options Centre, where he sent a letter forged in his father's name saying he had thrown 16-year-old Ade out and he needed social housing.
  • (5) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
  • (6) Children had been born, careers had been forged, houses had been bought and sold.
  • (7) I have no doubt that these friendships, forged in adversity and pizza, will be patched up.
  • (8) I don’t feel as if I have any choice but to fly straight on.” Ann Henry was another Fayetteville woman who forged a lasting bond with Clinton, helped along by their shared experiences as just about the only female lawyers in town.
  • (9) It was at this time that Milosevic forged a close friendship with Stambolic, scion of an elite communist family.
  • (10) No call for the resurrection of the proud, shared traditions of Scots, Welsh and English people as they defied the powerful to build a better society; no convincing pledge that a new Britain would be forged, just and equal and fair unlike what New Labour failed to deliver.
  • (11) With the eurozone unravelling and world markets in turmoil, threatening even the meagre recovery the UK economy had achieved since the onset of the credit crunch, he repeatedly evokes a mood of national emergency to explain why the coalition he forged with David Cameron is the right government for the times.
  • (12) Earlier this year Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty predicted Apple could sell 40m iPhones in China this year as it forges deals with the country's top three telecoms firms.
  • (13) 1 Forge the Malaqi Trail: Wadi Mujib, Jordan From its northern reaches in Syria, the Great Rift Valley cuts a swathe through Jordan, pushing up the mountains that define many of the country's beautiful and well-managed nature reserves.
  • (14) Despite deep differences, Cameron is insistent that a better relationship can still be forged.
  • (15) British officials had resigned themselves to BP overshadowing some of Cameron's efforts to forge a strong personal relationship with Obama and start making a political mark in Washington as a much needed new substantial centrist figure from Europe.
  • (16) I believe that the processing centre and the resettlement arrangement, that we're now forging, will enable us to have an orderly process in those people who are seeking genuine citizenship of other countries in the region.
  • (17) I must give all credit to the Tata board and to SSI for finally forging an agreement that will resume steelmaking on Teesside.
  • (18) But the next big shift is that, in every sphere of its activities, it should be able to point to partnerships it has forged where, most often, the result is a whole that adds up to more than the sum of the parts.
  • (19) Inler also has a fiery side and it is a surprise to learn that it has been curbed, rather than forged, in a Neapolitan boxing ring.
  • (20) The sharpening dispute over the Senkaku islands, known as Diaoyu in China , is the most recent product of this old narrative of violence, hatred, fear and grief that continues, sporadically, to obstruct both nations in their efforts to forge a more stable, trusting relationship.

Hammer


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
  • (n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer
  • (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
  • (n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
  • (n.) The malleus.
  • (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming.
  • (n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
  • (v. t.) To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.
  • (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
  • (v. t.) To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.
  • (v. i.) To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
  • (v. i.) To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meeting after meeting during 2011 to try to hammer out agreements about the basic shape of the Egyptian constitution – meetings that always mysteriously collapsed.
  • (2) The result will be yet another humiliating hammering for Labour in a seat it could never win, but hey, never mind.
  • (3) The trust was a compromise hammered out in the wake of the Hutton report, when the corporation hoped to maintain the status quo by preserving the old BBC governors.
  • (4) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
  • (5) The preceding paper (Hammer, C.H., A. Nicholson, and M. M. Mayer, 1975, Proc.
  • (6) The neurological deficits presented in this case were due to pontine infarction, which was suspected to be produced by thrombosis from the aneurysm, and a hydrocephalus might have been caused by a "water-hammering" effect of the elongated basilar artery.
  • (7) You’d think Michael Foot himself was running, attending debates in a hammer and sickle-print donkey jacket, from the amount we’ve been talking about him.
  • (8) The ultrasonic root planing however showed a more discrete scalloped surface with very small tears and having a hammered appearance.
  • (9) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
  • (10) He's scored for the Hammers, Newcastle, Derby and Leicester.
  • (11) IPC Media's NME, which was overtaken by Future Publishing monthly Metal Hammer for the first time in the second half of last year, had an average weekly circulation of 40,948 in the first half of 2009, down 27.2% on the same period in 2008.
  • (12) On the weather map rain hammers down like a monsoon.
  • (13) Formative experiences included watching Hammer horror films aged six as his babysitter passed him cigarettes, and of course Top Of The Pops: "I remember being seven and watching Ian Dury & The Blockheads and Lena Lovich.
  • (14) In 1967 Baker's career took a different turn when he joined Hammer.
  • (15) However, the match would end 2-2 thanks to a last-gasp Leonardo Ulloa penalty awarded after Jeffrey Schlupp went down under pressure from Carroll – something which infuriated the Hammers striker.
  • (16) Fabregas hammers it down the middle, the ball sailing slightly to the left before bulging the net.
  • (17) Global stock markets have fallen sharply on fears that the proposed €110bn (£95bn) rescue package hammered out over the weekend for Greece will not be enough to solve its financial crisis, as well as concern that the problems could spread to other European countries.
  • (18) Work to hammer out the details would begin immediately, Ghani said on Friday.
  • (19) He urged the prime minister, David Cameron, and Osborne to join leaders in Brussels to hammer out a deal.
  • (20) The relationship between final hammer velocity and maximum amplitude of radiated piano sound was investigated.