Dictionary Definition
fabricate
Verb
1 put together out of components or parts; "the
company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"
[syn: manufacture,
construct]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From the fabricatus, p. p. of fabricari, fabricare; meaning to frame, build, forge; through the fabrica. See fabric, farge.Pronunciation
- ˈfæb.ɹɪ.ket
Verb
- To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.
- To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate computer chips.
- To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.
Synonyms
Translations
to form into a whole by uniting its parts
- German: fabrizieren, erzeugen
- Hungarian: összeszerel
to form by art and labor; to manufacture
- German: fabrizieren, herstellen, erzeugen
- Hungarian: gyárt
to invent and form; to forge
- German: fabrizieren, herstellen, erzeugen, anfertigen
- Hungarian: kiagyal
- ttbc Italian: fabbricare
- ttbc Spanish: fabricar
Extensive Definition
Fabrication may refer to:
- Various processes in arts, crafts and manufacturing:
- The creation of a falsehood:
- Lies
- Fiction
- Fables
- Fabrication (science), a form of scientific misconduct
fabricate in French: fabrication
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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