What's the difference between forger and forget?

Forger


Definition:

  • (n. & v. t.) One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
  • (n. & v. t.) Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To recap, the budget deficit is reducing at pre-cut projections, the national debt is increasing at an accelerated pace, we are printing money with the enthusiasm of crack-addicted forgers, we are selling anything that is not nailed down and still have a rising overall tax burden while spending less and less on public services.
  • (2) Forgers in the Middle East are offering fake Syrian passports for as little as $250, days after it emerged that one of the Paris bombers may have entered Europe using false Syrian paperwork.
  • (3) In its early days the Bank's biggest security challenge was forgers altering the value of a note, for instance from £10 to £20, rather than attempting to replicate the note itself.
  • (4) A second forger in Duhok says he can procure a passport, allegedly with the help of a Syrian embassy official, within four days – for a premium price of $2,500.
  • (5) Although the forgers' methods vary, there are a few common mistakes that should ring alarm bells.
  • (6) He's adept at assuming and shedding a succession of identities and even sexual preferences, expert in technological matters, au fait with the forgers and gunsmiths of the continental underworld, and yet quite uninvolved in the political and military ructions that have prompted his employers, a cadre of right-wing French military officers, to seek his skills.
  • (7) Wild patterns dance, perspective shifts, all to fool the forger.
  • (8) He was, though, a phrasemaker - as well as an idea-forger - of brilliance, and many of his terms, such as "the original position" and "veil of ignorance", have become part of the language.
  • (9) He has nearly 40 years experience as a security expert for US law enforcement agencies, having switched sides when he was eventually caught by the FBI after spending half his teenage years on the run as a confidence trickster, imposter, cheque forger and escape artist in the 1960s.
  • (10) It is very easy.” Concern over burgeoning trade in fake and stolen Syrian passports Read more The revelations came as Serbian officials claimed that as many as eight asylum seekers entered Europe this year with similar passport details as ”Ahmad Almohammad”, the suspected pseudonym of one of the Paris suspects, leading to suspicions that all of them might have bought passports from the same forger in the Middle East.

Forget


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.
  • (v. t.) To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
  • (2) When tested 4 weeks later, they showed significant forgetting.
  • (3) They make a big deal when it happens, and then they forget.” The use of sarin has been highly contentious throughout the Syrian war.
  • (4) All freedom-loving people will miss him, but we will never forget his sacrifice and his achievements."
  • (5) But we shouldn’t forget that Gawker was not just getting sued over the Hulk Hogan sex tape case.
  • (6) Oh, and let’s not forget about him doing bad dance moves in a video making fun of Drake’s choreography in the Hotline Bling video.
  • (7) "We have vowed to never forget and we never will," he said.
  • (8) Seethetree Kingley Vale, Sussex Forget the colours of autumn; this place is sombre in colour and atmosphere but you will be walking among probably the oldest living organisms in Britain.
  • (9) You will also need to find alternative disposable bags for shops to stock while people get into the habit of bringing their own bag, however, and for when they forget.
  • (10) Also, if you want to press vinyl, forget it – leading up to this day all of the pressing plants are booked.
  • (11) This was generally mild and always fully reversible and consisted mainly of forgetfulness, occasionally hallucinations, nightmares and somnolence.
  • (12) Results for the backward-counting condition duplicate, for the retention intervals used, the shape of the classic Peterson and Peterson forgetting curve but indicate little loss of memory in either the rehearsal or alpha conditions.
  • (13) Forget about the infants' milk, only lucky children can get it.
  • (14) Effectiveness of the neuropharmacological actions improving the memory forgotten trace retrieval is shown to depend upon the duration of the spontaneous forgetting process.
  • (15) The first symptom of the younger brother (case 2) was also forgetfulness at 45 years old, then severe dementia was advanced, at last he died of pneumonia at age 53 old.
  • (16) Our board of trustees already involves [the ice hockey player] Ilya Kovalchuk and his wife Nicole, and we are now negotiating with [the boxer] Roy Jones Jr, who recently received Russian citizenship.” It is clear that Shatov is an achiever more than than a dreamer – a down-to-earth character who will never forget where he came from.
  • (17) Ultimately, we are fallible and forgetful, so the best way to solve the problem is as always choice-editing or design this inconvenience out.
  • (18) Nor should we forget why the Conservatives were so eager to seize that chance: they saw the opportunity to wipe out the achievements of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who demonstrated, over many years of hard graft, that the country’s economic management was safe in Labour’s hands.
  • (19) Deliberate forgetting Wouldn't it be useful if our minds had their own refuse collection service – a way of selectively depositing those memories we no longer require while keeping hold of those that we do?
  • (20) Obama acknowledged he had read an article "in the news just the other day wondering has Washington missed its opportunity, because as time goes on after Newtown, somehow people start moving on and forgetting" This was not the case, he said.

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