| fabricate | (v) make up something artificial or untrue, Syn. make up, cook up, invent, manufacture | | fabrication | (n) a deliberately false or improbable account, Syn. fable, fiction | | fabrication | (n) writing in a fictional form, Syn. fictionalization, fictionalisation | | fabrication | (n) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials, Syn. manufacturing, manufacture, Example: the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals; an improvement in the manufacture of explosives; manufacturing is vital to Great Britain | | fabrication | (n) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery), Syn. assembly, Ant. disassembly |
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| | Fabricate | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fabricated p. pr. & vb. n. Fabricating ] [ L. fabricatus, p. p. of fabricari, fabricare, to frame, build, forge, fr. fabrica. See Fabric, Farge. ] 1. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story. [ 1913 Webster ] Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ] | | fabricated | adj. formed or conceived by the fancy or imagination; as, a fabricated excuse for his absence.
Syn. -- fancied, fictional, fictitious, fictive, invented, made-up. [ WordNet 1.5 ] | | Fabrication | n. [ L. fabricatio; cf. F. fabrication. ] 1. The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication. Syn. -- See Fiction. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Fabricator | n. [ L. ] One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes. [ 1913 Webster ] The fabricator of the works of Ossian. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Fabricatress | n. A woman who fabricates. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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