Fake
[feɪk] or [fek]
Definition
(noun.) something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be.
(adj.) not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; 'it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur'; 'faux pearls'; 'false teeth'; 'decorated with imitation palm leaves'; 'a purse of simulated alligator hide' .
Edited by Diana--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
(v. t.) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.
(v. t.) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
(v. t.) To make; to construct; to do.
(v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
(n.) A trick; a swindle.
Checker: Olivier
Definition
v.t. to fold coil.—n. a coil of rope &c.
v.t. to steal: to make up an article so as to hide its defects.—n. Fake′ment any swindling device.
Typist: Rosanna
Unserious Contents or Definition
A false report.
Typist: Steven
Examples
- I looked in the glass and saw myself looking like a fake doctor with a beard. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- His lamp was pronounced a fake, a myth, possibly a momentary success magnified to the dignity of a permanent device by an overenthusiastic inventor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Now it is the paradise of the fake soldier. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was too clear and simple and too open and shut and many of the statistics he knew were faked by wishful thinking. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But perhaps the fascists were faking for another offensive down through Guadalajara with them. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And I don't think she was faking about the hand. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Checker: Spenser