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fake

1  [feyk] verb, faked, fak⋅ing, noun, adjective
Use fake in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. prepare or make (something specious, deceptive, or fraudulent): to fake a report showing nonexistent profits.
2. to conceal the defects of or make appear more attractive, interesting, valuable, etc., usually in order to deceive: The story was faked a bit to make it more sensational.
3. to pretend; simulate: to fake illness.
4. to accomplish by trial and error or by improvising: I don't know the job, but I can fake it.
5. to trick or deceive (an opponent) by making a fake (often fol. by out): The running back faked out the defender with a deft move and scored.
6. Jazz.
a. to improvise: to fake an accompaniment.
b. to play (music) without reading from a score.
–verb (used without object)
7. to fake something; pretend.
8. to give a fake to an opponent.
–noun
9. anything made to appear otherwise than it actually is; counterfeit: This diamond necklace is a fake.
10. a person who fakes; faker: The doctor with the reputed cure for cancer proved to be a fake.
11. a spurious report or story.
12. Sports. a simulated play or move intended to deceive an opponent.
–adjective
13. designed to deceive or cheat; not real; counterfeit.
—Verb phrase
14. fake out, Slang.
a. to trick; deceive: She faked me out by acting friendly and then stole my job.
b. to surprise, as by a sudden reversal: They thought we weren't coming back, but we faked them out by showing up during dinner.
Origin:
1805–15; orig. vagrants' slang: to do for, rob, kill (someone), shape (something); perh. var. of obs. feak, feague to beat, akin to D veeg a slap, vegen to sweep, wipe

Synonyms:
3. feign, affect, dissemble, sham, fabricate. 10. fraud, impostor, quack, charlatan, deceiver.

fake

2  [feyk] verb, faked, fak⋅ing, noun Nautical
–verb (used with object)
1. to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often fol. by down).
–noun
2. any complete turn of a rope that has been faked down.
3. any of the various ways in which a rope may be faked down.
Also, flake.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME faken to coil (a rope), of obscure orig.
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fake 1   (fāk)   
adj.  Having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent.
n.  

  1. One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.

  2. Sports A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.

v.   faked, fak·ing, fakes

v.   tr.

  1. To contrive and present as genuine; counterfeit.

  2. To simulate; feign.

  3. Music To improvise (a passage).

  4. Sports To deceive (an opponent) with a fake. Often used with out.

v.   intr.

  1. To engage in feigning, simulation, or other deceptive activity.

  2. Sports To perform a fake.


[Origin unknown.]
fak'er n., fak'er·y (fā'kə-rē) n.
fake 2   (fāk)   
n.  One loop or winding of a coiled rope or cable.
tr.v.   faked, fak·ing, fakes
To coil (a rope or cable).

[Middle English faken, to coil a rope.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

fake 
attested in London criminal slang as adj. (1775), verb (1812), and noun (1827), but probably older. Likely source is feague "to spruce up by artificial means," from Ger. fegen "polish, sweep," also "to clear out, plunder" in colloquial use. "Much of our early thieves' slang is Ger. or Du., and dates from the Thirty Years' War" [Weekley]. Or it may be from L. facere "to do."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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