Fabricate

Definitions: Fabricate

Fabricate

Verb

1. Put together out of components or parts; "Ford makes cars"; "They manufacture small toys".

2. Make up something artificial or untrue.

Date "fabricate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Fabricate \Fab"ri*cate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Fabricated; present participle verb or noun Fabricating.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Mechanical Engineering	To transform a workpiece, either by cutting-i. e. by stock removal or shearing-or by plastic deformation, principally with the object of shaping it. Furthermore:to subject a workpiece to physico-chemical action, such as welding or glueing. A workpiece is generally "worked" by exposing it to the action of a tool. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Fabricate

Synonyms: construct (v), cook up (v), invent (v), make up (v), manufacture (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Falsehood	Invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake, hatch, concoct; romance; (imagine); cry "wolf!'
Imagination	Create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate; improvise, strike out something new.
Production	Verb: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish; (complete).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	At a time like this even Jesus Christ would fabricate his intentions. (The Return of Count Yorga; writing credit: Bob Kelljan; Yvonne Wilder)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Fabricate Your Own Boat or Start Your Own Marine Canvas Business (reference) Sentimente fabricate in laborator (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Armenia	For example, chief defendant Nairi Hunanian claimed he was threatened and tortured in jail by Military Prosecutor Jhangirian and other investigators, who forced him to testify against presidential advisor Alexan Harutyunian, MP Mushegh Movsisian, and journalists Harutyun Harutyunian and Nairi Badalian, in the process of trying to fabricate a case against President Kocharian. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Fabricate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 83.78% of the time. "Fabricate" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	83.78%	31	62,296
Lexical Verb (base form)	16.22%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	37	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "fabricate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		vervaardig (achieve, act, carry out, do, make, manufacture, perform), aanmaak (making, manifacture, manufacture). (various references)

Albanian		falsifikoj (adulterate, counterfeit, fake, falsify, forge, wangle), fabrikoj (machinate, make up, manufacture, mill, produce), trilloj (contrive, feign, fudge, invent), shpik (coin, concoct, contrive, devise, invent, strike out, weave), sajoj (coin, concoct, cook, cook up, counterfeit, devise, engineer, excogitate, invent, lay out, patch up, prefabricate, strike out, think up, toss up, vamp, weave), prodhoj (bear, deliver, do, elaborate, generate, make, manufacture, mill, produce, yield), bëj (achieve, act, beget, carry into effect, carry on, carry out, carry through, catch, cause, commit, create, do, effect, effectuate, grow, have, make, make up, navigate, pay, perform, perpetrate, proceed, render, study, transact, wage, wreak). (various references)

Arabic		‏لفق (concoct, contrive, create, fake, forge, fudge, invent, make up, trump up), ‏زيف (adulterate, alloy, artificiality, counterfeit, doctor, fake, falsify, falsity, forge, imitate, mockery, sham), ‏صنع (dip, fabrication, fashion, industrialize, make, manufacture, nil, output, produce, production, turn out), ‏إخترع (concoct, contrive, invent, think up, vamp), ‏أنشأ (construct, cradle, evolve, father, form, foster, found, founder, germinate, institute, nurture, organize, originate, plant, start, structure, work up), ‏ركب (assemble, compact, compose, construct, frame, mount, prepare, put together, ride, rig up, set, set up, straddle, superimpose), ‏بتدع (create, innovate). (various references)

Bulgarian		строя (build, construct, engineer), скалъпвам (carpenter, cook up, indite, piece together, put together, rig up, think up, toss off), фабрикувам (make, manufacture), произвеждам (afford, bring forth, generate, make, manufacture, produce, promote, put out, queen, raise), подправям (adulterate, cook, debase, doctor, dose, dress, falsify, fiddle, fix up, flavour, forge, gaff, imitate, load, raise, salt, season, sophisticate, spice, wangle), изфабрикувам (frame up, manufacture), измислям (coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, devise, dream up, evolve, excogitate, fake, feign, figure out, frame up, incubate, invent, manufacture, think up, trump, weave). (various references)

Catalan		fabricar (manufacture). (various references)

Chinese		編� (compile, concoct, cook up, create out of the imagination, draw up, invent, make up, work out), 編 (arrange, compile, compose, edit, group, organize, plait, weave, write), 杜 (low stool, restrict, to prevent), 制� (Fabricated, Fabricating, Fabrication, manufacture). (various references)

Czech		falšovat (adulterate, doctor, fake, falsify, forge, tamper), vymýšlet si (spin), stavìt (build), padìlat (counterfeit, fake, falsify, forge), konstruovat (construct). (various references)

Danish		fabrikere (manufacture). (various references)

Dutch		maken (achieve, act, carry out, cause, compose, create, develop, do, fix, get, make, manufacture, perform, repair, write), fabriceren (manufacture), aanmaken (achieve, act, carry out, do, kindle, light, make, manufacture, perform, prepare). (various references)

Esperanto		fabriki (manufacture). (various references)

Faeroese		framleiða (beget, generate, manufacture). (various references)

Finnish		työstää (process, to fabricate, to machine, to process, to work, tool, work). (various references)

French		fabriquer (fashion). (various references)

Frisian		fabrisearje (manufacture). (various references)

German		herstellen (achieve, act, carry out, complete, do, establish, make, make up an emulsion, makes, manufacture, perform, prepare an emulsion, produce, restore, to fabricate), fabrizieren (concoct, get up to, manufacture, produce, to fabricate). (various references)

Greek		κατασκευάζω (assemble, build, confection, construct, make, malt, manufacture, process, tool, work), επινοώ (coin, come up with, concoct, contriv, contrive, devise, invent, make up). (various references)

Hebrew		למצוץ מ�"אצבע (concoct), לפברק, לזיף (fake, falsify, forge, sham, simulate, tamper), ל�"רכיב (assemble, build, combine, compose, compound, place on, put together, set up), לב�"ות (concoct, confabulate, feign, invent, make up), לב�"וא (confabulate, devise), לב� ות (build, construct, establish, form, make). (various references)

Hungarian		kitalál (feign, give birth, guess, invent, sprang, sprung, to contrive, to cook up, to devise, to fabricate, to feign, to find one's way out, to forge, to make up, to nick, to spring, to strike out), gyárt (made, make, manufacture, produce, to fabricate, to make, to mint, to produce, to turn out), elkészít (did, done, make ready, to cook, to dispense, to do, to make ready, to make up). (various references)

Indonesian		mengada-ngada (concoct, invent), membikin-bikin. (various references)

Italian		fabbricare (brew, build, construct, constuct, make, makes, manufacture, manufacutre, produce, to produce), inventare (contrive, cook up, forge, frame, invent, spin, think up), falsificare (counterfeit, doctor, fake, falsify, fiddle, forge). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		� り上�'る (to build up, to complete, to construct, to fabricate, to make up), � る (to build, to coin, to commit, to compose, to construct, to create, to cultivate, to draw up, to establish, to fabricate, to make, to make up, to manufacture, to organize, to prepare, to trim, to write), 捏っち上�'る (to fabricate, to frame someone), 作り上�'る (to build up, to complete, to construct, to fabricate, to make up), 作る (to build, to coin, to commit, to compose, to construct, to create, to cultivate, to draw up, to establish, to fabricate, to make, to make up, to manufacture, to organize, to prepare, to trim, to write), 嘘で固める (to fabricate a web of lies). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		うそでかためる (to fabricate a web of lies), でっちあ�'る (to fabricate, to frame someone), つくりあ�'る (to build up, to complete, to construct, to fabricate, to make up), つくる (to build, to coin, to commit, to compose, to construct, to create, to cultivate, to draw up, to establish, to fabricate, to make, to make up, to manufacture, to organize, to prepare, to trim, to write). (various references)

Korean		� 조하십시�". (various references)

Manx		lhiassaghey (allege, amend, ascribe, ascription, charge, charge imputation, contrive, contriving, fabrication, improve, make up, preserve), jannoo (accomplish, accomplishment, act, build, cast, coalesce, commit, committal, compose, conferment, conformation, construct, construction, create, deal, deed, do, effect, execute, fashion, fend, fill, follow out, formation, goings on, keep, make, manufacture, perform, performance, performing, perpetrate, perpetration, persuance, practise, produce, production, render; doing, structure, style, transact, transaction, transactions), cummey (adaptation, appearance, atmosphere, composition, design, devise, feature, format, indite, invention, itinerary, mould, outline, plan, prospectus, shape, version), cooiney (coin, invent, mint). (various references)

Norwegian		dikte opp. (various references)

Papiamen		fabriká (manufacture). (various references)

Pig Latin		abricatefay.(various references)

Portuguese		fabricar (brew, create, frame, labor benefits, labour pains, make, manufacture, mill, produce, turn out). (various references)

Romanian		produce (afford, arise, bear, bring, bring about, bring forth, cause, create, deliver, engender, generate, give, give forth, happen, machine, make, manufacture, mill, operate, produce, raise, shape, yield), fabrica (coin, concoct, forge, make, manufacture, mint, prepare, process, produce, work). (various references)

Russian		подделывать (counterfeit, doctor, fake, forge, tamper, tin), измышлять (coin, excogitate, fictionalize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		fabrikovati (manufacture), izraditi (manufacture), izmišljati (contrive, flam). (various references)

Spanish		fabricar (achieve, act, brew, carry out, do, falsify, knock out, make, make up, manufacture, perform, produce, throw in, turn out). (various references)

Swedish		fabricera (make, manufacture, produce), förfalska (adulterate, constitution, cook, counterfeit, debase, doctor, fake, fake up, falsify, fiddle, forge, load), tillverka (confection, make, manufacture, turn out), montera (assemble, fit, fix, instal, install, link, mount, put up, to assemble, to erect, to mount), konstruera (construct, construe, design, frame, lay down), hitta på (conceive, concoct, contrive, devise, dream up, excogitate, fake, fake up, feign, find out, invent, manufacture), dikta ihop, dikta (caulk, invent, write poetry), bearbeta (adapt, canvass, cultivate, machine, ply, prepare, process, to fabricate, to machine, to process, to work, tool, treat, work). (various references)

Thai		สร้างหรือผลิตจากวัส�"ุหลายชนิ�"รวมกัน, สร้างข้อมูลหรือเรื่องราวที่ไม่เป็นความจริง. (various references)

Turkish		yalan söylemek (fib, lie, prevaricate, tell a fib, tell a lie), uydurmak (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, concoct, conform, cook, cook up, dream up, fake up, fashion, feign, fib, fit, forge, frame, fudge, gear, improvise, invent, key, make up, manufacture, mint, quadrate, reconcile, romance, spin, Square, square with, suit, syntonize, tailor, talk through one's hat, tally up, tell a fib, trump up, tune, tune up), sahtesini yapmak (counterfeit, debase, fake, falsify, forge), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, utter, void), üretmek (breed, churn out, generate, grow, incubate, manufacture, procreate, procure, produce, propagate, put out, turn out). (various references)

Ukranian		фабрикувати (coin, concoct, manufacture), виготовляти (prepare, produce, shape), вигадувати (coin, conceit, concoct, contrive, devise, dream up, excogitate, feign, fib, fudge, invent, make believe, mint, romance, think out). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	confinxit, fingere. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fabricate": fabricated, fabricates. (additional references)
	Words ending with "fabricate": prefabricate. (additional references)
	Words containing "fabricate": prefabricated, prefabricates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fabricate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abricate, fabbrica, Fabiato, fabrica, fabricae, fabricat, Fabryka, facbricate, farakat, Farmcote, Furihata. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fabricate" (pronounced fa"brukā't)
5	-r u k ā' t	deprecate, extricate, reciprocate.
4	-u k ā' t	abdicate, allocate, aluminosilicate, authenticate, communicate, complicate, dedicate, domesticate, educate, equivocate, eradicate, excommunicate, indicate, intoxicate, misallocate, pontificate, predicate, prognosticate, rededicate, reeducate, replicate, suffocate.
3	-k ā' t	adjudicate, bifurcate, cheapskate, confiscate, implicate, inculcate, locate, lubricate, medicate, obfuscate, prefabricate, sophisticate, truncate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-f-i-r-t"
	-1 letter: bacteria.
	-2 letters: abreact, barefit, bearcat, cabaret.
	-3 letters: abater, arabic, baiter, barite, biface, carafe, carate, caribe, fabric, farcie, fiacre, fracti, rebait, terbia, terbic.
	-4 letters: abaci, abaft, abate, acari, acerb, aceta, aecia, afire, afrit, after, areca, areic, atria, baric, befit, biter, brace, bract, brief, caber, carat, caret, carte, cater, ceiba, ceria, citer, craft, crate, erica, facer, facet, facia, farce, farci, feria, fiber, fibre, irate, rabat, rabic, react, reata, recta, recti, refit, retia, riata, taber, tafia, terai, tiara, trace, triac, tribe, trice.
	-5 letters: abet, abri, acre, acta, afar, airt, area, aria, bait, bare, barf, bate, bear, beat, beta, bice, bier, bite, brae, brat, brie, brit, cafe, carb, care, cart, cate, cire, cite, crab, crib, etic, face, fact, fair, fare, fart, fate, fear, feat, feta, fiar, fiat, fice, fire, frae, frat, fret, frit, race, raft, raia, rate, reft, reif, rice, rife, rift, rite, tace, tare, tear, tier, tire, tref.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-f-i-r-t"
	+1 letter: fabricated, fabricates.
	+2 letters: trafficable.
	+3 letters: prefabricate.
	+4 letters: abortifacient, prefabricated, prefabricates.
	+5 letters: abortifacients, prefabricating, prefabrication.
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