forge ahead

To proceed with something. The start of my presentation did not go as I had hoped, but I had to just forge ahead and keep talking. I know you're eager to buy a house, but you can't just forge ahead without considering what you can actually afford. It rained all day, meaning I couldn't exactly forge ahead with my plans to garden.

forge away at (something)

To work on or toward goal or task with great determination, diligence, and vigor. I've been forging away at my little business here for two years, and now I've really established myself within the community. The team has been forging away at their shot for a championship all year. The previous owners must have forged away at this garden for years because every season brings us beautiful new flowers!

forge on

To proceed with something. The start of my presentation did not go as I had hoped, but I had to just forge on and keep talking. I know you're eager to buy a house, but you can't just forge on without considering what you can actually afford. It rained all day, meaning I couldn't exactly forge on with my plans to garden.

forge over

nautical, obsolete To force one's ship over a sand bank or shallow place in a body of water by opening and filling all of the ship's sails. The captain knew it was a risky maneuver, but there was no way to proceed other than to forge over. Yeah, we could forge over, but what if we wind up damaging the boat? A: "How are we going to navigate around this sand bank?" B: "We can't—we'll have to forge over."

forge ahead

or forge on

To continue moving forward or making progress: The reporters forged ahead with the investigation. The weary troops forged on despite the snow.

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The Forge Initiative also includes a partner program for highly motivated innovators to work closely with Autodesk.

AUTODESK UNVEILS CLOUD-BASED FORGE INITIATIVE

Project Forge capabilities span all aspects of industrial and mechanical design, melded with anytime, anywhere access to data, collaborative and social development capabilities the cloud has to offer.

Autodesk Previews Project Forge

"Press size varies, especially in the distance between the dies," said Al Robertson, vice president of marketing and sales at Lehigh Heavy Forge in Bethlehem, Pa.

Heavy duty: new nuclear reactors require pressure vessels that are several stories tall and weigh hundreds of tons. What would it take to make one in the U.S.?

So far FOF, which comprises seven committee members together with pub regulars, have paid for the forge to be surveyed.

Wacky race raising cash to restore blacksmith's forge; Wheelbarrows and beds take to the highway

Other key new features in PlateSpin Forge 2.5 include: Multi-tenancy, enabling users to host multiple customers on a single PlateSpin Forge appliance; support for virtual-to-physical Server Sync, providing faster failback scenarios and significantly reducing restore time to the repaired server after an outage; support for replications lasting more than 24 hours; user interface enhancements, giving customers the ability to failover, failback and change protected workloads within the PlateSpin Forge interface; appliance portability, allowing customers to retain server protection contracts when the Forge appliance is moved to a different network; and support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista workloads.

Novell releases latest version of PlateSpin Forge

Close, who started learning the ways of hammer, anvil, tongs and forge at the age of 8.

Assabet Valley blacksmiths help keep tradition alive; Forge-In a gathering place for New England craftspeople

The North York Moors National Park Authority is appealing to local people to help them with the restoration of the rare 19th Century forge at Chop Gate.

Jigsaw with a difference

The group Friends of Churchill Forge have announced the move following an extensive restoration programme funded by English Heritage.

Forge opens to the public; CHURCHILL

Soon after his arrival aboard Valley Forge in January 1952, Michener witnessed what was to become the central theme for his book.

Behind The Bridges at Toko-ri

The new version of Sound Forge includes 20 DirectX Audio Plug-Ins, including XFX1, XFX2 and XFX3, and Acoustic Mirror, which can be used for acoustic simulation and microphone modeling.

SONIC FOUNDRY ANNOUNCES SOUND FORGE 5.0

The new arrival keeps TGA Morgan Platts on course to become the most advanced forge in Europe.

Enterprise: Company forges ahead with heavy investment; Beat that: New hammer adds strength to arm of TGA Morgan Platts

The nine are suspected of conspiring to forge alien registration cards by using personal computers and other equipment at the homes of Chen and Lu from March through April this year.

9 arrested for allegedly forging alien registration cards

For Felix Amar, president of Hampton Forge, the appearance of forged flatware is the key to its success in the marketplace.

FORGED FLATWARE TURNS UP THE HEAT

These companies forge their parts closer to net shape to save valuable machining time and steel cost.

THE VALLEY FORGE