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fabricated - 2 dictionary results

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 ME < L fabricātus made, ptp. of fabricāre. See fabric, -ate 1


fab⋅ri⋅ca⋅tive, adjective
fab⋅ri⋅ca⋅tor, noun


1. See manufacture.
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.
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