Fabrication
[fæbrɪ'keɪʃ(ə)n] or [,fæbrɪ'keʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery).
(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'.
(noun.) writing in a fictional form.
(noun.) a deliberately false or improbable account.
Editor: Rosalie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.
(n.) That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication.
Typed by Cedric
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Construction.[2]. Manufacture.[3]. Invention, fiction, forgery, falsehood, figment, coinage of the brain.
Typed by Anatole
Examples
- Continue thy story, Marty said to Andreu Nin; using the term story as you would say lie, falsehood, or fabrication. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The imitation of German patriotic misconceptions did not end with this Anglo-Saxon fabrication. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I will stake it all on the fact that your story is an absolute fabrication. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the third place, those notes are of my making; there is nothing but my assertion to the contrary, to guarantee that they are not fabrications. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Inputed by Agnes