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Fake
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Fake has 3 senses
- fake(n = noun.artifact) postiche, sham - something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be; Array has particulars: fake book, potemkin village
- fake(n = noun.person) faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer - a person who makes deceitful pretenses; Array is a kind of beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster
- fake(n = noun.act) juke - (football) a deceptive move made by a football player; Array is a kind of feint
is a kind of imitation
Derived forms verb fake3, verb fake1, verb fake2, adjective fake2
has particulars: name dropper, ringer
Derived forms verb fake1, verb fake2, adjective fake1
Verb Fake has 3 senses
- fake(v = verb.creation) counterfeit, forge - make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card" is one way to re-create
- fake(v = verb.social) cook, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle - tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" is one way to cheat, chisel
- fake(v = verb.communication) bull, bullshit, talk through one's hat - speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it" is one way to affect, dissemble, feign, pretend, sham
Derived forms noun fake1, noun fake2, noun fakery1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived forms noun fake1, noun fake2, noun faker1, noun fakery1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived forms noun fake1, noun faker1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something
Adjective Fake has 2 senses
- fake(s = adj.all) bastard, bogus, phoney, phony - fraudulent; having a misleading appearance; Array Derived form noun fake2
- fake(s = adj.all) false, faux, imitation, simulated - not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide" Derived form noun fake1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Fake, n. [Cf. Scot. faik fold, stratum of stone, AS. fæc space, interval, G. fach compartment, partition, row, and E. fay to fit.].
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil. [1913 Webster]
Fake, v. t.
To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out. [1913 Webster]
Fake, v. t. [Cf. Gael. faigh to get, acquire, reach, or OD. facken to catch or gripe.].
- To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob. [1913 Webster]
- To make; to construct; to do. [1913 Webster]
- To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it. [1913 Webster]
Fake, n.
A trick; a swindle. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Fake, n., adj., & v.
--n.
1 a thing or person that is not genuine.
2 a trick.
--adj. counterfeit; not genuine.
--v.tr.
1 make (a false thing) appear genuine; forge, counterfeit.
2 make a pretence of having (a feeling, illness, etc.).
--n.
1 a thing or person that is not genuine.
2 a trick.
--adj. counterfeit; not genuine.
--v.tr.
1 make (a false thing) appear genuine; forge, counterfeit.
2 make a pretence of having (a feeling, illness, etc.).
Derivative
faker n. fakery n.
Fake, n. & v. Naut.
--n. one round of a coil of rope.
--v.tr. coil (rope).
--n. one round of a coil of rope.
--v.tr. coil (rope).
Etymology
ME: cf. Scottish faik fold
THESAURUS
Fake
act, act a part, act like, actor, ad-lib, adulterate, affect, affected, affecter, agent, alike, alter, alternate, alternative, analogy, aped, apocryphal, artificial, assume, assumed, backup, bastard, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, bogus, borrow, brummagem, certified copy, change, changeling, charlatan, cheat, chorus, clinquant, colorable, colored, comparison, concoct, concocted, consimilar, cook, cook up, copied, copy, counterfeit, counterfeited, cover up, crib, dash off, deceiver, deception, deputy, dissemble, dissimulate, distorted, ditto, do, do a bit, do like, do offhand, doctor, double, dramatize, dressed up, dummy, echo, ectype, embellished, embroidered, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, extemporize, fabricate, fabricated, factitious, fair copy, faithful copy, faked, fakement, faker, false, falsified, falsify, fantasize, favoring, feign, feigned, fictitious, fictive, fill-in, flam, following, forge, forged, forgery, four-flush, fourflusher, frame-up, framed, fraud, fraudulent, fudge, gammon, garbled, ghost, ghostwriter, go like, gyp, hatch, histrionize, hoax, hoaxer, hoke, hoke up, hokey, hollow man, homogeneous, humbug, hypocritical, icon, identical, illegitimate, image, imitate, imitated, imitation, impersonator, impostor, improvisate, improvise, invent, invented, juggle, junk, junky, jury-rig, knock off, lash up, let on, let on like, like, likeness, load, locum tenens, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make like, make out like, make up, make-believe, makeshift, malingerer, man of straw, man-made, manipulate, mannerist, manufacture, metaphor, metonymy, mimicked, mirror, mock, modify, mountebank, nearly reproduced, next best thing, not unlike, overact, pack, paper tiger, paste, pasticcio, pastiche, performer, personnel, perverted, phony, picture, pinch, pinch hitter, pinchbeck, plagiarize, plagiarized, plant, play, play a part, play a scene, play by ear, play possum, playact, playactor, portrait, poser, poseur, pretend, pretended, pretender, profess, provisional, proxy, pseudo, put on, put on airs, put-on, put-up job, quack, quacksalver, quackster, quasi, queer, reecho, reflect, relief, repeat, replacement, representation, representative, resemblance, resembling, reserve, reserves, retouch, rig, ringer, rip-off, salt, saltimbanco, scrap the plan, second string, secondary, self-styled, sell, semblance, sham, shammer, shoddy, sign, similar, similitude, simulacrum, simulate, simulated, smacking of, snide, so-called, soi-disant, something like, sophisticate, spares, spoof, spurious, stack, stand-in, stopgap, straw man, strike off, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, suggestive of, superseder, supplanter, supposititious, surrogate, swindle, symbol, synecdoche, synthetic, tamper with, temporary, tentative, third string, throw off, throw together, tin, tinsel, titivated, token, toss off, toss out, trump up, tug the heartstrings, twisted, unauthentic, understudy, ungenuine, uniform with, unnatural, unreal, utility, utility player, vamp, vicar, vicarious, vice-president, vice-regent, warped, wear, whip up, whited sepulcher, whomp up, wing itROGET THESAURUS
Fake
Copy
N copy, facsimile, counterpart, effigies, effigy, form, likeness, image, picture, photo, xerox, similitude, semblance, ectype, photo offset, electrotype, imitation, model, representation, adumbration, study, portrait, resemblance, duplicate, reproduction, cast, tracing, reflex, reflexion, reflection, shadow, echo, transcript, transcription, recording, scan, chip off the old block, reprint, new printing, rechauffe, apograph, fair copy, parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, travestie, paraphrase, derivative, derivation, modification, expansion, extension, revision, second edition, servile copy, servile imitation, plagiarism, counterfeit, fake, pasticcio, faithful, lifelike, close, conscientious, unoriginal, imitative, derivative.Falsehood
VB be false, be a liar, speak falsely, tell a lie, lie, fib, lie like a trooper, swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness, misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent, belie, falsify, pervert, distort, put a false construction upon (misinterpret), prevaricate, equivocate, quibble, palter, palter to the understanding, repondre en Normand, trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose, garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to, give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon, color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider, varnish right and puzzle wrong, exaggerate, blague, invent, fabricate, trump up, get up, force, fake, hatch, concoct, romance, cry 'wolf!', dissemble, dissimulate, feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe, play possum, play false, play a double game, coquet, act a part, play a part, affect, simulate, pass off for, counterfeit, sham, make a show of, malinger, say the grapes are sour, cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror, hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors, commend the poisoned chalice to the lips, ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces, deceive.Deception
N deception, falseness, untruth, imposition, imposture, fraud, deceit, guile, fraudulence, fraudulency, covin, knavery, misrepresentation, bluff, straw-bail, straw bid, spoof, delusion, gullery, juggling, jugglery, slight of hand, legerdemain, prestigiation, prestidigitation, magic, conjuring, conjuration, hocus-pocus, escamoterie, jockeyship, trickery, coggery, chicanery, supercherie, cozenage, circumvention, ingannation, collusion, treachery, practical joke, trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite, card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck, artful dodge, swindle, tricks upon travelers, stratagem, confidence trick, fake, hoax, theft, ballot-box stuffing, barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game, shell game, thimblerig, skin game, snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin, springe, springle, noose, hoot, bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens, cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime, dionaea, Venus's flytrap, ambush, trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom, spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery, mine, flytrap, green goods, panel house, Cornish hug, wolf in sheep's clothing, disguise, disguisement, false colors, masquerade, mummery, borrowed plumes, pattes de velours, mockery, copy, counterfeit, sham, make- believe, forgery, fraud, lie, a delusion a mockery and a snare, hollow mockery, whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher, tinsel, paste, junk jewelry, costume jewelry, false jewelry, synthetic jewels, scagliola, ormolu, German silver, albata, paktong, white metal, Britannia metal, paint, veneer, jerry building, man of straw, illusion, ignis fatuus, mirage, deceived, deceiving, cunning, prestigious, prestigiatory, deceptive, deceptious, deceitful, covinous, delusive, delusory, illusive, illusory, elusive, insidious, ad captandum vulgus, untrue, mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious bastard, surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated, unsound, rotten at the core, colorable, disguised, meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated, catchpenny, Brummagem, artificial, synthetic, ersatz, simulated, under false colors, under the garb of, under cover of, over the left, keep the word of promise to the ear and break it t, fronti nulla fides, ah that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, a quicksand of deceit, decipimur specie recti, falsi crimen, fraus est celare fraudem, lupus in fabula, so smooth, he daubed his vice with show of virtue.Untruth
N untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle, whopper, jhuth, forgery, fabrication, invention, misstatement, misrepresentation, perversion, falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi, exaggeration, invention, fabrication, fiction, fable, nursery tale, romance, absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement, thing devised by the enemy, canard, shave, sell, hum, traveler's tale, Canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy tale, fake, claptrap, press agent's yarn, puff, puffery (exaggeration), myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest, farce, irony, half truth, white lie, pious fraud, mental reservation, pretense, pretext, false plea, subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe, sham, profession, empty words, Judas kiss, disguise, untrue, false, phony, trumped up, void of foundation, without- foundation, fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths, unfounded, ben trovato, invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged, fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious, elusory, illusory, ironical, soi-disant, se non e vero e ben trovato, where none is meant that meets the ear.
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