| verb | create by hammering “hammer the silver into a bowl” |
| verb | make a copy of with the intent to deceive “he faked the signature” |
| verb | come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort “excogitate a way to measure the speed of light” |
| verb | move ahead steadily “He forged ahead” |
| verb | move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy |
| verb | make something, usually for a specific function “She molded the rice balls carefully” |
| verb | make out of components (often in an improvising manner) “She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks” |
| adjective | reproduced fraudulently “like a bad penny...” |
| forge | noun | a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering |
| forger | noun | someone who operates a forge |
| forging | noun | shaping metal by heating and hammering |
| hammer | noun | a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking |
| forgery | noun | a copy that is represented as the original |
| fake | noun | a person who makes deceitful pretenses |
| fakery | noun | the act of faking (or the product of faking) |
| counterfeiter | noun | someone who makes copies illegally |
| counterfeit | noun | a copy that is represented as the original |
| inventive | adjective | (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; ; - Lewis Mumford |
| invention | noun | the creation of something in the mind |
| inventor | noun | someone who is the first to think of or make something |
| contrivance | noun | the act of devising something |
| deviser | noun | a person who makes plans |
| devising | noun | the act that results in something coming to be |
| devisal | noun | the act of devising something |
| excogitation | noun | the creation of something in the mind |
| excogitator | noun | a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly |
| formula | noun | a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle |
| formulation | noun | inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally |
| shape | noun | the visual appearance of something or someone |
| shaper | noun | a person who makes things |
| shaping | noun | the act of fabricating something in a particular shape |
| form | noun | a mold for setting concrete |
| formation | noun | a particular spatial arrangement |
| mold | noun | the distinctive form in which a thing is made |
| fashioning | noun | the act that results in something coming to be |