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fabricated

[fab-ri-keyt]

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verb (used with object), -cat·ed, -cat·ing.

to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.

to make by assembling parts or sections.

to devise or invent (a legend, lie, etc.).

to fake; forge (a document, signature, etc.).

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

Related forms

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

Synonyms
1. See manufacture.

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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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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.

The principal part of a famously fabricated dinosaur fossil is an ancient fish-eating bird, scientists report.

These can be fabricated locally with local technicians.

Indeed, it is quite possible that this carving has been fabricated.

The sheet metal counter was fabricated at a sheet metal shop.

On the upper floor is a room-sized scale dominated by a wheel fabricated of milled aluminum.

Or they fabricated medical reasons to make the women postpone their procedures.

Finally, if the models produce the desired effect, full-scale components are fabricated and tested on the track.

Quantum computers can store and process data using atoms, photons or fabricated microstructures.

Perry used custom fabricated aluminum hoops and galvanized livestock fencing.

The units are currently being fabricated and readied for transport.

It reads as ridiculously embellished if not completely fabricated.

All of these gasifiers are fabricated out of stainless steel so that they can be used over many years.

Monier himself fabricated ferroconcrete wall panels for buildings, beams and even complete bridges.

But, despite hours spent poring through his fabricated trading records, they found nothing.

The airframe, if you could call it that, is fabricated from a steel scaffold.

Manojlovic fabricated the synthesis and characterization of five.

Masks are fabricated to keep the inmates from communicating during rare trips outside their cells.

It is difficult to believe that he could have fabricated such tall tales without anyone's detecting them earlier.

But one does need to shy away from fabricated notions of victimization.

Wiles, fabricated financial data with tactics that included shipping bricks and scrap parts disguised as disk drives.

It's not for the first time the western media published fabricated articles but this one takes the price.

Engineers model prototypes and have them fabricated in dedicated machine.

Green immunity for testifying that he had fabricated the tape.

He believes that local officials fabricated the case against him in order to force his silence.

The sockets are designed and fabricated to suit each patient's specific needs, says the company.

But accusations that he had plagiarized other scholars and fabricated parts of his research began to emerge.

In short, it is impossible to become concerned about a character so patently fabricated.

They used real bearings to reduce friction on the moving parts and fabricated the rest from lightweight carbon fiber and aluminum.

Far has admitted to the government that some of the information shared on the calls was fabricated.

The story is as patent a fraud as the fabricated battle scenes.

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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.

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