What (who) is fake - definition
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Fake (disambiguation); FAKE; Fake (band); Fake (movie); Fake (song); The Fake; The Fake (disambiguation); Fake (film); The Fake (film)
fake
(fakes, faking, faked)
1.
A fake fur or a fake painting, for example, is a fur or painting that has been made to look valuable or genuine, usually in order to deceive people.
The bank manager is said to have issued fake certificates.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
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A fake is something that is fake.
It is filled with famous works of art, and every one of them is a fake.
N-COUNT
2.
If someone fakes something, they try to make it look valuable or genuine, although in fact it is not.
He faked his own death last year to collect on a $1 million insurance policy.
...faked evidence.
VERB: V n, V-ed
3.
Someone who is a fake is not what they claim to be, for example because they do not have the qualifications that they claim to have.
= fraud
N-COUNT
4.
If you fake a feeling, emotion, or reaction, you pretend that you are experiencing it when you are not.
Jon faked nonchalance...
Maturity and emotional sophistication can't be faked.
VERB: V n, V n
Fake
·noun A trick; a swindle.
III. Fake ·noun One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
V. Fake ·vt 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.
VI. Fake ·vt 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.
fake
fake1
¦ adjective not genuine.
¦ noun a person or thing that is not genuine.
¦ verb
1. forge or counterfeit (something).
pretend to feel or suffer from (an emotion or illness).
2. (fake someone out) N. Amer. informal trick or deceive someone.
Derivatives
faker noun
fakery noun
Origin
C18 (orig. sl.): origin uncertain; perh. ult. related to Ger. fegen 'sweep, thrash'.
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fake2
¦ noun & verb variant spelling of flake4.
Origin
ME (as v.): of unknown origin.
Wikipedia
Fake
Fake may refer to:
- Deception, an act or a statement intended to deceive
- Charlatan, a person who practices deception to obtain money or other advantages
- Counterfeit, a reproduction of an item, intended to deceive
- Cover-up, an attempt to conceal wrongdoing, error, or other embarrassing information
- Decoy, a person, device, or event meant as a distraction
- Fake news, a form of news consisting of deliberate disinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional news media or online social media.
- False (disambiguation)
- Falsity, the deceitfulness of one party culminating in damage to another party
- Feint, a maneuver designed to distract or mislead, often in fencing or military tactics
- Forgery, the falsification of a legal instrument with the intent to defraud
- Fraud, or sham, an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual
- Hoax, a falsehood deliberately crafted to deceive
- Illusion, a distortion of the senses, which can reveal how the human brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation.
- Replica, a reproduction of an item, not necessarily intended to deceive
Pronunciation examples for fake
1. or what's fake-- fake news, fake science.
Innovation in Breast Cancer Prevention & Treatment _ Fran Visco & Alana Welm _ Talks at Google
2. real, fake, real, fake.
Genuine Fakes - How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff _ Lydia Pyne _ Talks at Google
3. the Fake Books, Fake Books.
The Book of Changes - Jazz in China _ David Moser _ Talks at Google
4. Fake stoned, like fake news.
Off-Broadway's The Whirligig _ Zosia Mamet + More _ Talks at Google
5. JILLIAN MICHAELS: Fake ads, fake this, fake that.
Jillian Michaels _ Celebrity Trainers' Secrets Fittness _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of fake
1. The story of the fake checkpoint turned out to be just that –– fake.
2. The passengers, both Indians, boarded the flight using fake seals of immigration department and fake passports.
3. You can have fake participatory processes just as you can have fake representative ones.
4. He kept tabs on petty crime –– theft, domestic violence and the forgery that thrived in the infamous Mreidi souk, where "fake documents, fake IDs, fake passports, fake anything" were churned out.
5. "People don‘t die from carrying a fake handbag or wearing a fake t–shirt.