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The deliberate act of deviating from the truth
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fabrication
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, "manufacturing, construction," from Middle French fabrication and directly from Latin fabricationem (nominative fabricatio ) "a structure, construction, a making," noun of action from past participle stem of fabricare "to make, construct" (see fabricate ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture 2 (context countable English) That which is fabricated; a falsehood
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE complete ▪ The list was a practical joke, a complete fabrication yes a happening even. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ A report about abuse at the school was found to be a fabrication . ▪ Everything that was written ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a deliberately false or improbable account [syn: fiction , fable ] writing in a fictional form [syn: fictionalization , fictionalisation ] the act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; ...
Usage examples of fabrication.
With Fabrication, she did quality control for the anhydrous production of fiberglass cables coated with iron.
Cyrus Harding, therefore, resolved to proceed without any further delay to the fabrication of a strong rope ladder, which, once raised, would render Granite House completely inaccessible.
Sarah Levine has changed her mind about going to Lacaille 9352 to work on the fabrication and the launch of its impactor for the BHP.
I was just checking with the site on how impactor fabrication was doing.
When Roz started her practicum in Fabrication, she began to spend more time with Eva.
Roz started her practicum in Fabrication, she began to spend more time with Eva.
There is a general feeling among the old women of Salies that it is their duty to create and promulgate fabrications and rumors replete with lurid details as a way to protect the Trevilles from the excessive imaginations of the gossips.
The truth was often more upsetting, more complex than a simple fabrication.
For the first, the technical directorate of an entire Atlantic Sub-Sea Petroleum Corporation district, and all wells, fields, pipelines, stills, storage fields, transport, fabrication and maintenance appertaining thereto.
It was big and chunky and battered, looking as if some large component of an orbital fabrication plant had drifted out this way by accident, acquiring wear and patches and micrometeor impacts along the way.
Adams and note his apparent misapprehension of questions that would tend to involve him, and note the apparent failure of his theretofore wonderfully clear and exact memory of the most trivial and unimportant details, I am inclined to reject the whole story as a fabrication that has been punctured and fallen to pieces.
Alongside his recliner was the cluttered surface that served as a desk, elbow-distance bookshelf, breakfast bar, and workbench for a partly dismantled device of peculiar design and fabrication, which he had informed her was from the innards of a Ganymean gravitic communications modulator.
Speaker, I must state emphatically that what the honourable member for East Warra Warra alleges against me is a base fabrication.
In recent years, airframe manufacturers had been obliged to send portions of the fabrication overseas, to the countries ordering planes.
With Yeaton, Henry went over some drawings of cabinetwork and instructed him that, before proceeding with fabrication and installation, Yeaton should submit all shop drawings and samples of material to him in New York for approval.