fabrication
/,fæbri'keiʃn/
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Definition
- Noun:
- The act of inventing or making up false information: A fabrication is something that has been deliberately created or invented, often to deceive others. It refers to a statement or story that is not true.
- The process of manufacturing or constructing something: Fabrication can also mean the action or process of making or producing something, especially in an industrial context from raw materials or components.
Examples of Usage
- Noun (Falsehood):
- His alibi turned out to be a complete fabrication.
- The journalist was accused of fabrication for publishing the untrue story.
- Noun (Manufacturing):
- The fabrication of the new bridge will take two years.
- This company specializes in the fabrication of custom metal parts.
Advanced Usage
- "A tissue of fabrications": A complex series of interconnected lies.
- The entire report was dismissed as a tissue of fabrications.
- In legal/formal contexts: Often used to describe the criminal act of forging documents or evidence.
- He was charged with document fabrication.
Variants and Related Words
- Fabricate (verb): To invent or concoct (something false), or to construct or manufacture (an industrial product).
- to fabricate an excuse / to fabricate steel beams
- Fabricator (noun): A person who invents false stories or a company/person that manufactures items.
- He is a notorious fabricator of urban legends. / The fabricator delivered the parts on time.
Synonyms
- Falsehood / Lie (for the deceitful meaning): An untrue statement.
- Manufacture / Production (for the industrial meaning): The process of making goods.
Related Phrases
- "Sheer fabrication": Used to emphasize that something is completely made up and untrue.
- The rumor about his resignation is sheer fabrication.
Noun
- the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
- the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
- the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
- the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals
- an improvement in the manufacture of explosives
- manufacturing is vital to Great Britain
- writing in a fictional form
- a deliberately false or improbable account