Forge vs. Refine — What's the Difference?

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.

Remove impurities or unwanted elements from (a substance), typically as part of an industrial process

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

To reduce to a pure state; purify.

A workshop where pig iron is transformed into wrought iron.

To remove by purifying.

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

To free from coarse, unsuitable, or immoral characteristics

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

To become free of impurities.

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

To acquire polish or elegance.

To fashion or reproduce for fraudulent purposes; counterfeit

To use precise distinctions and subtlety in thought or speech.

To work at a forge or smithy.

(transitive) To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.

To make a forgery or counterfeit.

(intransitive) To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.

To advance gradually but steadily

(transitive) To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish.

To advance with an abrupt increase of speed

(ambitransitive) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.

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

(transitive) To make nice or subtle.

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

To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.

The act of beating or working iron or steel.

To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.

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To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.

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

To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.

To form or create with concerted effort.

To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.

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

Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing;

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

Make more complex, intricate, or richer;

(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.

Treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition;

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

Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities;

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.

Attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying;

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

Make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of;

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

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

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

To coin.

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

To commit forgery.

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.

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

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);