Fashion vs. Forge — What's the Difference?

Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. In its everyday use, the term implies a look defined by the fashion industry as that which is trending.

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.

The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior

A furnace or hearth where metals are heated or wrought; a smithy.

Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode

A workshop where pig iron is transformed into wrought iron.

Manner or mode; way

To form (metal, for example) by heating in a forge and beating or hammering into shape.

A personal, often idiosyncratic manner

To form (metal) by a mechanical or hydraulic press.

Kind or variety; sort

To give form or shape to, especially by means of careful effort

Shape or form; configuration

To fashion or reproduce for fraudulent purposes; counterfeit

To give shape or form to; make

To work at a forge or smithy.

To train or influence into a particular state or character

To make a forgery or counterfeit.

(Archaic) To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion.

To advance gradually but steadily

(Obsolete) To contrive.

To advance with an abrupt increase of speed

(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.

A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.

(uncountable) Popular trends.

A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.

(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.

The act of beating or working iron or steel.

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.

(computing) A Web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.

(dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

(metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.

To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.

To form or create with concerted effort.

(dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.

To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.

(dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.

To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.

(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

(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.

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.

(sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.

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.

Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.

The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.

Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.

The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies.

To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.

To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.

To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; - with to.

To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.

To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.

To coin.

To forge or counterfeit.

To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.

How something is done or how it happens;

To commit forgery.

Characteristic or habitual practice

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.

The latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior

To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

Make out of components (often in an improvising manner);

Furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping

A workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering

Create by hammering;

Make a copy of with the intent to deceive;

Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort;

Move ahead steadily;

Move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy

Make something, usually for a specific function;

Make out of components (often in an improvising manner);