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Fabrication - 4 dictionary results

fab⋅ri⋅ca⋅tion

[fab-ri-key-shuhn]
–noun
1. the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
2. something fabricated, esp. an untruthful statement: His account of the robbery is a complete fabrication.

Origin:
1475–1500; < L fabricātiōn- (s. of fabricātiō). See fabricate, -ion


2. See fiction.
fab·ri·cate   (fāb'rĭ-kāt')   
tr.v.   fab·ri·cat·ed, fab·ri·cat·ing, fab·ri·cates
  1. To make; create.
  2. To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts: fabricate small boats.
  3. To concoct in order to deceive: fabricated an excuse.

[Middle English fabricaten, from Latin fabricārī, fabricāt-, to make, from fabrica, craft; see fabric.]
fab'ri·ca'tion n., fab'ri·ca'tor n.

Fabrication

Fab`ri*ca"tion\, n. [L. fabricatio; cf. F. fabrication.]

1. The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. --Burke.

2. That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication.

Syn: See Fiction.
Language Translation for : Fabrication
Spanish: invención,
German: die Erfindung,
Japanese: でっちあげ

Main Entry: fab·ri·ca·tion
Pronunciation: "fab-ri-'kA-sh&n
Function: noun
: CONFABULATION
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