fabrication

fabrication

manufacture; something fabricated; an untruthful statement: His alibi was a total fabrication.
Not to be confused with:fib – a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood: He meant no harm; it was only a fib.

fab·ri·cate

F0002500 (făb′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 a convincing excuse.

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[Middle English fabricaten, from Latin fabricārī, fabricāt-, to make, from fabrica, craft; see fabric.]

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fab′ri·ca′tion n.fab′ri·ca′tion·al adj.fab′ri·ca′tor n.

fab•ri•ca•tion

(ˌfæb rɪˈkeɪ ʃən)

n. 1. the act or process of fabricating; manufacture. 2. something fabricated, esp. an untruthful statement.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	fabrication - a deliberately false or improbable accountfable, fictionfalsehood, untruth, falsity - a false statementcanard - a deliberately misleading fabrication
	2.	fabrication - writing in a fictional formfictionalisation, fictionalizationauthorship, penning, writing, composition - the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
	3.	fabrication - 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"manufacturing, manufacturecreating from raw materials - the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into itformation, shaping - the act of fabricating something in a particular shapenewspeak - deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language use to mislead and manipulate the public; "the welfare state brought its own newspeak"prefabrication - the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site
	4.	fabrication - the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)assemblyconstruction, building - the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"
	5.	fabrication - the deliberate act of deviating from the truthlying, prevaricationfalsification, misrepresentation - a willful perversion of factsfibbing, paltering - a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear

fabrication

noun1. forgery, lie, fiction, myth, fake, invention, fable, concoction, falsehood, figment, untruth, porky (Brit. slang), fairy story (informal), pork pie (Brit. slang), cock-and-bull story (informal) She described the interview with her as a 'complete fabrication'.2. manufacture, production, construction, assembly, erection, assemblage, building More than 200 improvements were made in the design and fabrication of the shuttle.

Translations

捏造谎言

fabricate

(ˈfӕbrikeit) verb to make up something that is not true (a story, accusation etc). to fabricate an excuse. 捏造 捏造ˌfabriˈcation noun1. a lie. Your account of the accident was a complete fabrication. 謊言 谎言2. the act of fabricating. 捏造 捏造