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Formation 76% connected

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

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Shaping 76% connected

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Forge 74% connected

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., wh…

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Forge 74% connected

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., wh…

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Stress noun · 78% connection

(physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; "the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of a…

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Fabrication noun · 78% connection

the act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the…

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Fluid mechanics noun · 78% connection

study of the mechanics of fluids

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Hydraulics noun · 78% connection

study of the mechanics of fluids

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Manufacture noun · 78% connection

the act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the…

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Manufacturing noun · 78% connection

the act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the…

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Torque noun · 78% connection

The twisting effect of a force.

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Bearing adjective · 78% connection

(of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain

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Machine noun · 78% connection

any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks

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Mechanics noun · 78% connection

the technical aspects of doing something; "a mechanism of social control"; "mechanisms of communication"; "the mechanics of prose styl…

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Mechanism noun · 78% connection

the technical aspects of doing something; "a mechanism of social control"; "mechanisms of communication"; "the mechanics of prose styl…

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Strain noun · 78% connection

difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension; "she endured the stresses and strains of life"; "he presided over the economy durin…

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Breaking point noun · 78% connection

the degree of tension or stress at which something breaks

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Mechanical stress noun · 78% connection

elastic stress (any deformation of a solid material) and viscous stress (the gradual changing of the deformation) combined.; "The rela…

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Blacksmith noun · 78% connection

A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.

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Bloom noun · 78% connection

A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of a…

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Bloomery noun · 78% connection

A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.

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Brand-new adjective · 78% connection

Quite new; bright as if fresh from the forge.

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Chafery verb · 78% connection

An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.

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Counterfeit verb · 78% connection

To imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to counterfeit the signa…

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Cyclops n. sing. & pl. · 78% connection

A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.

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Fabricate verb · 78% connection

To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.

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Falsify adjective · 78% connection

To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.

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Fashion verb · 78% connection

To forge or counterfeit.

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Fire-new adjective · 78% connection

Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new.

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Foge noun · 78% connection

The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.

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Forged imp. & p. p. · 78% connection

of Forge

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Hammer verb · 78% connection

To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

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Heat noun · 78% connection

A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.

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Helve noun · 78% connection

The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer.

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Invent verb · 78% connection

To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to i…

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Mint verb · 78% connection

To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.

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