Fake

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.4 Noun 1.5 Verb

English

Etymology

Unknown; possibly from feague, an obscure word which means "to make a horse's fundament more lively through artificial means" or "to artificially decorate", from German fegen

Pronunciation

• AHD: /fāk/
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Adjective

fake

1. not real; false; fraudulent

Noun

fake (plural: fakes)

1. a trick; a swindle
2. something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently
3. One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

Verb

to fake (third-person singular simple present fakes, present participle faking, simple past faked, past participle faked)

1. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
2. To make; to construct; to do.
3. 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.
4. 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.

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