Foster vs. Forge — What's the Difference?

To bring up; nurture

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.

To promote the growth and development of; cultivate

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

To nurse; cherish

A workshop where pig iron is transformed into wrought iron.

Providing parental care and nurture to children not related through legal or blood ties

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

Receiving parental care and nurture from those not related to one through legal or blood ties

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

Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.

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

Receiving such care.

To fashion or reproduce for fraudulent purposes; counterfeit

Related by such care.

To work at a forge or smithy.

A foster parent.

To make a forgery or counterfeit.

(uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.

To advance gradually but steadily

(transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.

To advance with an abrupt increase of speed

(transitive) To cultivate and grow something.

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

(transitive) To nurse or cherish something.

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

To be nurtured or trained up together.

The act of beating or working iron or steel.

To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.

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

To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.

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

To be nourished or trained up together.

To form or create with concerted effort.

Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; - applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.

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

A forester.

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

United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)

(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.

Promote the growth of;

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

Bring up under fosterage; of children

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.

Help develop, help grow;

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

Providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties;

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);