forging
Americannoun
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forgings
plural
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an act or instance of forging.
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something forged; a piece of forged work in metal.
noun
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the process of producing a metal component by hammering
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the act of a forger
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a metal component produced by this process
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the collision of a horse's hind shoe and fore shoe
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Etymology
Origin of forging
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; forge 1 + -ing 1
Vocabulary lists containing forging
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The new wave of AI filmmakers have accepted the rise of AI as inevitable, and are forging ahead, increasingly in Culver City.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Jacob Tremblay embodies a young Kaczynski almost exactly as I have imagined him, minus the smiling and the forging of his mother’s signature.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
He sued Wood and another woman for defamation, accusing them of impersonating FBI agents and forging federal documents.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
“Agency” is wielding power and autonomy in choosing how to live; “belonging” is forging social ties with others; and “cause” is serving a higher purpose.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
She reasserted herself as the power broker among the leaders of the neighboring states, forging alliances and drawing up agreements.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
The 787 faces multiple strains on its supply chain, several of which are shared broadly across the aviation industry, such as forgings and castings for engines.
From Reuters ● Mar. 15, 2023
A few miles away, Howmet, where my father worked next, made airfoils, rings, disks, forgings and other parts for airplanes, including the infamous F-35 fighter jet.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
The sectors are: casting and forgings, missiles and munitions, energy storage and batteries, strategic and critical materials and microelectronics.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
Like all Miura forgings, the K-Grind 2.0 wedge is forged at headquarters in Himeji, Japan, using the company’s 14-step forging process.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 11, 2019
Though it reaches its highest development when thousands of similar pieces are wanted, it is also adaptable to a hundred, or even to a dozen, similar forgings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
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