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FABRICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The deliberate act of deviating from the truth
Synonyms:
fabrication; lying; prevarication
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("fabrication" is a kind of...):
falsification; misrepresentation (a willful perversion of facts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fabrication"):
fibbing; paltering (a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear)
Derivation:
fabricate (put together out of artificial or natural components or parts)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
Synonyms:
assembly; fabrication
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("fabrication" is a kind of...):
building; construction (the act of constructing something)
Derivation:
fabricate (put together out of artificial or natural components or parts)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The act of making something (a product) from raw materials
Example:
manufacturing is vital to Great Britain
Synonyms:
fabrication; manufacture; manufacturing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("fabrication" is a kind of...):
creating from raw materials (the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fabrication"):
formation; shaping (the act of fabricating something in a particular shape)
newspeak (deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public)
prefabrication (the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site)
Derivation:
fabricate (put together out of artificial or natural components or parts)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Writing in a fictional form
Synonyms:
fabrication; fictionalisation; fictionalization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("fabrication" is a kind of...):
authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)
Derivation:
fabricate (concoct something artificial or untrue)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A deliberately false or improbable account
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("fabrication" is a kind of...):
falsehood; falsity; untruth (a false statement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fabrication"):
canard (a deliberately misleading fabrication)
Derivation:
fabricate (concoct something artificial or untrue)
Context examples:
Cell Membrane Alteration consists of a change in the quality of the existing state of activities involved in the composition, fabrication, construction, or maintenance of the regular structure and function of semipermeable lipid bilayer membranes that surround or reside within a cell.
(Cell Membrane Process, NCI Thesaurus)
Companies looking to make bigger fabrication lines for perovskites have been trying to solve the problem of how to make the films more homogenous, but now we can show them that actually a simple inkjet printing process could do a better job.
(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)
Impaired Cytoskeletal Integrity consists of activities that interfere with, or restrain, fabrication, construction, or maintenance of the network of protein scaffolding, filaments, tubules, and interconnecting filamentous bridges (microfilaments, microtubules, intermediate filaments, and associated proteins) that give shape, structure, and organization to the cytoplasm and to a cell.
(Impaired Cytoskeletal Integrity, NCI Thesaurus)
It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller’s-earth was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a purpose.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Impaired Cell Membrane Integrity consists of activities that interfere with, or restrain, fabrication, construction, or maintenance of the regular structure and function of semipermeable lipid bilayer membranes that surround or reside within a cell.
(Impaired Cell Membrane Integrity, NCI Thesaurus)
He ran over the violent speech the cub reporter had constructed for him, and, though at first he was angered by the fabrication, in the end he tossed the paper aside with a laugh.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The fabrications techniques used to construct microfluidic devices are relatively inexpensive and are amenable both to highly elaborate, multiplexed devices and also to mass production.
(Microfluidics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
