| 单词 | fabrication |
| 释义 | fabrication (once / 4432 pages) n A fabrication is something made up, like a lie. Telling your boss that the subway broke down when in fact you just forgot to set your alarm is a fabrication. The word fabrication was originally used to talk about manufacturing or construction, and it referred to the act of assembling something. Tires and steering wheels are necessary materials for automobile fabrication. Nowadays, the word fabrication is usually used to refer to the act of coming up with a story out of thin air. In this sense, a book of fiction is a fabrication, as is the lie you tell your girlfriend to explain why you forgot her birthday (again). WORD FAMILYfabrication: fabrications, refabrication+/fabricate: fabricated, fabricates, fabricating, fabrication, fabricator, prefabricate/fabricator: fabricators/prefabricate: prefabricated, prefabricates, prefabricating, prefabrication USAGE EXAMPLESOwens sketches the furniture, and Lamy chooses and sources the materials and oversees fabrication, they said. Los Angeles Times(Dec 17, 2016) You can’t defend it against all enemies, foreign and domestic, if you dismiss intelligence about foreign enemies as fabrications by your domestic enemies. Slate(Dec 16, 2016) Her fabrication was retold on the pages of Rolling Stone and did far more than sully a publication and a writer. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) 1n the act of making something (a product) from raw materials the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals Syn|Hypo|Hyper manufacture, manufacturing formation, shaping the act of fabricating something in a particular shape newspeakdeliberately ambiguous and contradictory language use to mislead and manipulate the public prefabricationthe manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site filingthe act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object) forgingshaping metal by heating and hammering metalwork, metalworkingthe activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner granulationthe act of forming something into granules or grains grooving, riflingthe cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm turningthe activity of shaping something on a lathe creating from raw materials the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it 2n the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) Syn|Ant|Hyper assembly disassembly, dismantlement, dismantling the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) building, construction the act of constructing something 3n a deliberately false or improbable account Syn|Hypo|Hyper fable, fiction canard a deliberately misleading fabrication falsehood, falsity, untruth a false statement 4n the deliberate act of deviating from the truth Syn|Hypo|Hyper lying, prevarication fibbing, paltering a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear falsification, misrepresentation a willful perversion of facts 5n writing in a fictional form Syn|Hyper fictionalisation, fictionalization authorship, composition, penning, writing the act of creating written works |
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