Hearth vs. Forge — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Hearth and Forge
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Hearth
A hearth is a brick- or stone-lined fireplace, with or without an oven, used for heating and originally also used for cooking food. For centuries, the hearth was such an integral part of a home, usually its central and most important feature, that the concept has been generalized to refer to a homeplace or household, as in the terms "hearth and home" and "keep the home fires burning".
Forge
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.
Hearth
The floor of a fireplace, usually extending into a room and paved with brick, flagstone, or cement.
Forge
A furnace or hearth where metals are heated or wrought; a smithy.
Hearth
A fireplace
A blazing fire in the hearth.
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Forge
A workshop where pig iron is transformed into wrought iron.
Hearth
Family life; the home.
Forge
To form (metal, for example) by heating in a forge and beating or hammering into shape.
Hearth
The lowest part of a blast furnace or cupola, from which the molten metal flows.
Forge
To form (metal) by a mechanical or hydraulic press.
Hearth
The bottom of a reverberatory furnace, where ore is exposed to the flame.
Forge
To give form or shape to, especially by means of careful effort
Forge a treaty.
Forge a close relationship.
Hearth
The fireplace or brazier of a blacksmith's forge.
Forge
To fashion or reproduce for fraudulent purposes; counterfeit
Forge a signature.
Hearth
The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
Forge
To work at a forge or smithy.
Hearth
A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
Cooking on an open hearth
Forge
To make a forgery or counterfeit.
Hearth
A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
Forge
To advance gradually but steadily
Forged ahead through throngs of shoppers.
Hearth
The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
Forge
To advance with an abrupt increase of speed
Forged into first place with seconds to go.
Hearth
A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
Forge
A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
Hearth
(figurative) Home or family life.
Forge
A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
Hearth
(Germanic paganism) A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.
Forge
The act of beating or working iron or steel.
Hearth
The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.
There was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept.There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.
Forge
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Hearth
The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.
Household talk and phrases of the hearth.
Forge
(metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
Hearth
The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles; as, an open-hearth smelting furnace.
He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth money.
Forge
To form or create with concerted effort.
The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.
Hearth
An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built;
The fireplace was so large you could walk inside it
He laid a fire in the hearth and lit it
The hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires
Forge
To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
He had to forge his ex-wife's signature.
The jury learned the documents had been forged.
Hearth
Home symbolized as a part of the fireplace;
Driven from hearth and home
Fighting in defense of their firesides
Forge
To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
Hearth
An area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room);
They sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire
Forge
(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 party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.
We decided to forge ahead with our plans even though our biggest underwriter backed out.
Forge
(sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.
Forge
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.
In the quick forge and working house of thought.
Forge
The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
Forge
The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies.
In the greater bodies the forge was easy.
Forge
To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
Mars's armor forged for proof eterne.
Forge
To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.
Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.
Forge
To coin.
Forge
To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.
That paltry story is untrue,And forged to cheat such gulls as you.
Forged certificates of his . . . moral character.
Forge
To commit forgery.
Forge
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.
And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.
Forge
To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
Forge
Furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping
Forge
A workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
Forge
Create by hammering;
Hammer the silver into a bowl
Forge a pair of tongues
Forge
Make a copy of with the intent to deceive;
He faked the signature
They counterfeited dollar bills
She forged a Green Card
Forge
Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort;
Excogitate a way to measure the speed of light
Forge
Move ahead steadily;
He forged ahead
Forge
Move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy
Forge
Make something, usually for a specific function;
She molded the riceballs carefully
Form cylinders from the dough
Shape a figure
Work the metal into a sword
Forge
Make out of components (often in an improvising manner);
She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks
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