Meaning of FABRICATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'fabru`keyt
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [v] make up something artificial or untrue
- [v] put together out of components or parts; "Ford makes cars"; "They manufacture small toys"
|
| |
| | Websites: | |
|
| |
| | Synonyms: | | construct, cook up, invent, make up, manufacture |
| |
| | See Also: | | concoct, confabulate, dream up, hatch, make, mass-produce, mythologise, mythologize, raft, spin, think of, think up, trump up, vamp, vamp up | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | \Fab"ri*cate\, 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.
2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as,
to fabricate woolens.
3. To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to
fabricate a lie or story.
Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation
to prevailing usages. --Paley.
|
| |
| | Websites: | |
|
| |
| Thesaurus Terms |
| |
| | Related Terms: | | assemble, beget, breed, bring forth, bring into being, build, build up, call into being, cast, coin, combine, compose, compound, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, consist of, constitute, construct, contrive, cook, cook up, counterfeit, create, design, develop, devise, discover, dream up, elaborate, embody, engender, enter into, erect, evolve, experience imaginatively, extrude, fake, falsify, fancy, fantasize, fashion, feign, fictionalize, forge, form, formulate, frame, fudge, fudge together, generate, get up, give being to, give rise to, go into, hatch, hoke up, ideate, imagine, improvise, incorporate, indite, invent, join, make, make do with, make up, manufacture, mature, merge in, mint, mix, mold, organize, originate, patch together, piece together, plan, prefabricate, prepare, procreate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, run up, set up, shape, spawn, strike out, structure, suppose, synthesize, think out, think up, trump up, turn out, unite in, whomp up, write |
| |
|
|
|