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A copy that is presented as the original
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counterfeit
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In community card poker , a player or hand is said to be counterfeited when a community card does not change the value of his hand, but makes it more likely that an opponent will beat it. This occurs primarily in Omaha hold 'em hi-lo split and sometimes ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Counterfeit \Coun"ter*feit\ (koun"t?r-f?t), a. [F. contrefait, p. p. of contrefaire to counterfeit; contre (L. contra) + faire to make, fr. L. facere. See Counter , adv., and Fact .] Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a copy that is represented as the original [syn: imitation , forgery ] v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card" [syn: forge , fake ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES counterfeit goods (= goods that are made to look like the real thing, but are not the real thing ) ▪ Counterfeit goods will be seized and traders will face prosecution. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN currency ...
Usage examples of counterfeit.
Satan will once again try to counterfeit God by creating his own trinity: Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet.
Wood, who was also Keeper of the Capital Prison, had a sideline as a counterfeiting expert, bagging boodlers for the federal bounty money.
They came back in September and paid Brujo seventy-five thousand in counterfeit money.
When he got there he learned they had paid off Brujo in counterfeit, thus cutting off the source.
Niles smiled as Russell tumbled from the loft in counterfeit glee, hurtling through the air, his arms pinwheeling, his body arcing into space and dropping out of the light into blackness, his voice ricocheting from the recesses of the barn as he landed with a thud in the haymow twenty feet away across the threshing floor.
I scarcely need to counterfeit it now: The spirit which doth reign within these limbs Seems strangely undisturbed.
He then took up the notes, several thousand pounds of counterfeit longtails, which he placed in the grate and set alight, setting fire to the pile three times in all to make certain that there was nothing left but a handful of ashes.
One pair of shoes was sucked off his feet in the swamp and became a suitcase full of nearly perfect counterfeit hundreds found by a couple of skateboarders in Venice.
If we have someone who used to cobble together ansibles out of paper clips and moly wire, or counterfeit some currency, I want to know it.
I gave a glance at his diamond buckles, which were considered real at Grenoble, and I saw directly that they were counterfeits of a kind made in Venice, which imitate the facets of the diamonds in perfection, except to people who are experienced in diamonds.
On Monday evening, the Immigration and Naturalization Service paid a visit to one of the busboys, who held a counterfeit green card.
BOOK IX CONTAINING TWELVE HOURS Chapter 1 Of those who lawfully may, and of those who may not, write such histories as this Among other good uses for which I have thought proper to institute these several introductory chapters, I have considered them as a kind of mark or stamp, which may hereafter enable a very indifferent reader to distinguish what is true and genuine in this historic kind of writing, from what is false and counterfeit.
But then it collided with the institutionalized Jevlenese counterfeit being pushed northward, and it was destroyed.
Ramirez, if these are near exact counterfeits, how did you catch my twenties?
I may tell you frankly that I believe the stones to be counterfeit, and that your lie displeases me.