'Fabrication' definitions:
Definition of 'fabrication'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
Writing in a fictional form [syn: fabrication, fictionalization, fictionalisation]
noun
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" [syn: fabrication, manufacture, manufacturing]
noun
The act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) [syn: fabrication, assembly] [ant: disassembly, dismantlement, dismantling]
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The deliberate act of deviating from the truth [syn: lying, prevarication, fabrication]
Definition of 'Fabrication'
From: GCIDE
- Fabrication \Fab`ri*ca"tion\, n. [L. fabricatio; cf. F. fabrication.]
- 1. The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication.
- Syn: See Fiction. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fabrication'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anatomy,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- arrangement,
- artifact,
- assemblage,
- assembly,
- authorship,
- beginning,
- build,
- building,
- buildup,
- canard,
- casting,
- cock-and-bull story,
- coinage,
- combination,
- composition,
- compound,
- conception,
- concoction,
- conformation,
- constitution,
- construction,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- conversion,
- crafting,
- craftsmanship,
- creation,
- creative effort,
- cultivation,
- deceit,
- design,
- devising,
- elaboration,
- embodiment,
- erection,
- extraction,
- extravaganza,
- fable,
- fabric,
- fairy tale,
- fake,
- falsehood,
- falsification,
- fashion,
- fashioning,
- fib,
- fiction,
- figment,
- forgery,
- forging,
- form,
- format,
- formation,
- forming,
- formulation,
- frame,
- framing,
- generation,
- getup,
- growing,
- handicraft,
- handiwork,
- harvesting,
- hatching,
- improvisation,
- incorporation,
- invention,
- junction,
- lie,
- machining,
- make,
- makeup,
- making,
- making do,
- manufacture,
- manufacturing,
- milling,
- mining,
- mintage,
- mixture,
- mold,
- molding,
- myth,
- opus,
- organic structure,
- organism,
- organization,
- origination,
- pattern,
- patterning,
- physique,
- piecing together,
- plan,
- prefabrication,
- preparation,
- prevarication,
- processing,
- producing,
- product,
- production,
- putting together,
- raising,
- refining,
- romance,
- setup,
- sham,
- shape,
- shaping,
- smelting,
- story,
- structure,
- structuring,
- syneresis,
- synthesis,
- tale,
- tectonics,
- texture,
- tissue,
- untruth,
- warp and woof,
- weave,
- web,
- work,
- workmanship,
- yarn