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fabricated

[fab-ri-keyt] Example Sentences Origin

fab·ri·cate

[fab-ri-keyt]
verb (used with object), -cat·ed, -cat·ing.
1.
to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
2.
to make by assembling parts or sections.
3.
to devise or invent (a legend, lie, etc.).
4.
to fake; forge (a document, signature, etc.).

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin fabricātus made, past participle of fabricāre. See fabric, -ate1

fab·ri·ca·tive, adjective
fab·ri·ca·tor, noun
qua·si-fab·ri·cat·ed, adjective
un·fab·ri·cat·ed, adjective
well-fab·ri·cat·ed, adjective


1. See manufacture.

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Fabricated is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Example Sentences
  • The articles above were published before the author admitted the book was largely fabricated.
  • They use admittedly fabricated guesses at the possible probabilities of various parameters.
  • Already, they have fabricated materials that flex or contract when a voltage is applied.
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Word Origin & History

fabricate
mid-15c., from L. fabricatus, pp. of fabricare "to fashion, build," from fabrica (see fabric). In bad sense of "to tell a lie," etc., it is first recorded 1779. Related: Fabricated; fabricating.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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