(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.
Spurt
Definition:
(v. i.) To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.
(v. t.) To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth.
(n.) A sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space.
(v. i.) To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the second month, a variable spurt of growth occurs in the genu, followed by a similar period of rapid growth in the splenium between 4-6 months of age.
(2) [2-3H]Mannose incorporation into cerebellar glycoproteins was greater in malnourished rats during the period of brain growth spurt than in normally fed rats at all ages studied.
(3) The development of signs of puberty and a growth spurt appearing at this late age clearly show the potential for maturation and growth once malnutrition is corrected.
(4) Of 193 patients suffering from peptic ulcer bleeding identified by emergency gastrointestinoscopy, 52 patients were found to have bleeding gastric ulcer (spurt 5, active oozing 9, fresh clot 11, black clot 17, protruding vessel 4, and clear base without stigmata 6); the other 141 had bleeding duodenal ulcer (spurt 5, active oozing 26, fresh clot 43, black clot 23, protruding vessel 15, and clear base without stigmata 31).
(5) In addition, 5 children had GH deficiency so that their growth spurt was blunted and 3 of them were left with an extremely short stature.
(6) Once the growth spurt is over the condition subsides but the results of impaired growth or permanent pelvic deformity will not necessarily be eradicated.
(7) There was blood everywhere … blood was spurting out.
(8) Those children who were in early puberty when GH treatment started went into a rapid growth spurt and have now stopped growing.
(9) The gradual increase in blood pressure for large groups of adolescents would appear to be the result of the aggregate increase in size (weight) resulting from the asynchronous growth spurts of individuals studied.
(10) Whether Philip Hammond is soft snow or a spurting cuttlefish is difficult to say.
(11) Parameters characterizing the growth process, such as peak height velocity (PHV), age at PHV, and age at onset of the pubertal growth spurt (PGS), were calculated directly from the estimated curves.
(12) The patients showed a normal pubertal growth spurt which was, in general, insufficient to restore the growth retardation already established before adolescence.
(13) The results indicate that: (1) The so called adolescent spurt is not well defined among Bod highlanders.
(14) A spurt of corticosteroids was necessary to obtain apyrexia for the patients who had presented multiple auto-immune disorders and a resistance to the classical therapy.
(15) But like them it is at a peak during the prepubertal spurt of growth.
(16) Kyphotic curves tend to progress after the adolescent growth spurt while scoliotic curves do not.
(17) Women who reported sensitive area orgasms were also more likely to report a spurt of fluid at moment of orgasm.
(18) In his dreamlike view of the world, bits of buildings are liberated to take on their own lives and attempt unexpected feats: floors can shift and windows can hover – and now, it seems, planes can spurt out shimmering aluminium vapour trails.
(19) Gonadal steroids influence the skeletal growth and metabolism both during the pubertal growth spurt and in adulthood with aging.
(20) The growth curves for the testes, epididymides and body weight were similar and exhibited a spurt between the ages of 150 and 180 days.