Crossword clues for fabricate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fabricate \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.]
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 woolens.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "to fashion, make, build," from Latin fabricatus, past participle of fabricare "to make, construct, fashion, build," from fabrica (see fabric). In bad sense of "tell a lie (etc.)," it is recorded by 1779. Related: Fabricated; fabricating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build. 2 (context transitive English) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce. 3 (context transitive English) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely. 4 (context transitive cooking English) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl.
WordNet
v. put together out of components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys" [syn: manufacture, construct]
make up something artificial or untrue [syn: manufacture, cook up, make up, invent]
Usage examples of "fabricate".
Airen Cracken had fabricated an identity for his son that allowed Pash to enter the Imperial Naval Academy.
Emanations might BE, and the Created, the Fashioned and the Fabricated.
Posada del Fernando was alfresco at a long communal table fabricated of rotting wood, located in front of the wide, doorless entrance to the stable.
I was obliged to remain at Sens, soliciting my erasure from the emigrant list, which I did not obtain, however, till 1797, and to put an end to a charge made against me of having fabricated a certificate of residence.
However, before returning to the dockyard, Cyrus Harding conceived the idea of fabricating certain machines, which greatly excited the curiosity of his companions.
Since you say he is likable and plausible, I think he will give you a totally fabricated account of what actually happened.
Solar cells and masers are readily fabricated from semiconductors, with well understood human technology.
I may fabricate a name for pleasure-hunters, following still, with Corybantic fury, the orgic revels of Osiris or Astarte: in brief, to all the shades of human heresy, on this side or on that of the golden mean, the worship of one true God, as revealed to us in His three mysterious characters.
His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!
Deo juvante, Deo volente, ex visitatione Dei from depictions of the supreme god Jove in Roman mythology clutching bolts of lightning, hearkening back to prehistoric man cowering in terror from these flashes splitting the heavens with the voice of thunder to be placated, at any cost to reason, by fabricating privileged relations with the Deity as magic despaired and became religion.
And during the time of the antipopes, how many schismatic Orders were fabricating their own versions of things, and passing off their versions as the work of earlier men?
It was the spoor of Arab sandals, those of two men and a woman, and when the Waziri pointed them out to Zeyd the young Beduin swore that he recognized those of the woman as belonging to Ateja, for who knew better the shape and size of her little foot, or the style of the sandals she fabricated?
The patent team figured out a way to reduce the manufacturing costs on buckytubes somewhat by fabricating them in a buffered aqueous solution, which turned out to mean in saltwater, using some very special salt and precise temperature controls.
Anywhere else, Montero played his fabricated past and his wealthy, high-class playboy image to the hilt.
Also, the statelets produce glass, work gold and silver and fabricate jewelry.