Fabrication FABRICATION, n.
1. The act of framing or constructing construction; as the fabrication of a bridge or of a church.
2. The act of manufacturing.
3. The act of devising falsely; forgery.
4. That which is fabricated; a falsehood. The story is doubtless a fabrication.

fabrication n 1: a deliberately false or improbable account [syn: fabrication, fiction, fable] 2: writing in a fictional form [syn: fabrication, fictionalization, fictionalisation] 3: 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] 4: the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) [syn: fabrication, assembly] [ant: disassembly, dismantlement, dismantling] 5: the deliberate act of deviating from the truth [syn: lying, prevarication, fabrication]

fabrication noun Date: 15th century 1. the act or process of fabricating 2. a product of fabrication; especially lie, falsehood

fabrication see fabricate

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. 2. That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication. Syn: See Fiction.

fabrication n. 1. Construction. 2. Manufacture. 3. Invention, fiction, forgery, falsehood, figment, coinage of the brain, fable.

fabrication ˌfæbrɪˈkeɪʃən n. 1 construction, assembly, assemblage, making, fashioning, production, manufacture, putting together, building, erection, formation, formulation, structuring, constructing, organization, forming, framing, architecture: The fabrication of thousands of parts took only a month. 2 invention, creation, origination, make-up, manufacture, hatching, concoction, contrivance, design: Only Vanessa could have been responsible for the fabrication of such a diabolical plot. 3 falsehood, lie, fib, prevarication, story, tale, untruth, fiction, yarn, fable; falsification, forgery, fake, sham, Colloq cock-and-bull story, Brit fairy story, fairy tale: His war record is a complete fabrication.

128 Moby Thesaurus words for "fabrication": 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

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