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English

Pronunciation


Etymology 1

The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 CE in British criminals' slang1. It is probably from feague, "to give a better appearance through artificial means"; from the German fegen, "to sweep", "to polish".

Adjective

{{en-adj|fake|r|more}}

  1. Not real; false, fraudulent.
  2. : Which fur coat looks faker?


Translations

Noun

  1. A trick; a swindle.
  2. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.


Verb

  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.


Etymology 2

From Middle English faken, to coil a rope.

Noun

  1. One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.


Translations
  • Italian: {{t-|it|duglia|f}}

Verb

  1. 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.


Translations
  • Italian:

Derived terms


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Fake \Fake\, n. [Cf. Scot. faik fold, stratum of stone, AS.
f[ae]c space, interval, G. fach compartment, partition, row,
and E. fay to fit.] (Naut.)
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it
lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Fake \Fake\, v. t. (Naut.)
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.
[1913 Webster]

Faking box, a box in which a long rope is faked; used in
the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Fake \Fake\, v. t. [Cf. Gael. faigh to get, acquire, reach, or
OD. facken to catch or gripe.] [Slang in all its senses.]
1. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
[1913 Webster]

2. To make; to construct; to do.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Fake \Fake\, n.
A trick; a swindle. [Slang]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet fake
adj 1: fraudulent; having a misleading appearance [syn: bogus, phony,
phoney, bastard]
2: not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine
article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic
fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with
imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator
hide" [syn: false, faux, imitation, simulated]
n 1: something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
[syn: sham, postiche]
2: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor,
pretender, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo,
pseud, role player]
3: (football) a deceptive move made by a football player [syn:
juke]
v 1: make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the
signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She
forged a Green Card" [syn: forge, counterfeit]
2: fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books";
"falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, falsify,
cook, wangle, misrepresent]
3: talk through one's hat; "The politician was not well
prepared for the debate and faked it" [syn: bullshit, bull]
Moby Dictionary
act , act a part , act like , actor , ad-lib , adulterate , affect ,
affected , affecter , agent , alike , alter , alternate , alternative ,
analogy , aped , apocryphal , artificial , assume , assumed , backup ,
bastard , blagueur , bluff , bluffer , bogus , borrow , brummagem ,
certified copy , change , changeling , charlatan , cheat , chorus ,
clinquant , colorable , colored , comparison , concoct , concocted ,
consimilar , cook , cook up , copied , copy , counterfeit ,
counterfeited , cover up , crib , dash off , deceiver , deception ,
deputy , dissemble , dissimulate , distorted , ditto , do , do a bit ,
do like , do offhand , doctor , double , dramatize , dressed up , dummy ,
echo , ectype , embellished , embroidered , equal , equivalent , ersatz ,
exchange , extemporize , fabricate , fabricated , factitious ,
fair copy , faithful copy , faked , fakement , faker , false , falsified ,
falsify , fantasize , favoring , feign , feigned , fictitious , fictive ,
fill-in , flam , following , forge , forged , forgery , four-flush ,
fourflusher , frame-up , framed , fraud , fraudulent , fudge , gammon ,
garbled , ghost , ghostwriter , go like , gyp , hatch , histrionize ,
hoax , hoaxer , hoke , hoke up , hokey , hollow man , homogeneous ,
humbug , hypocritical , icon , identical , illegitimate , image ,
imitate , imitated , imitation , impersonator , impostor , improvisate ,
improvise , invent , invented , juggle , junk , junky , jury-rig ,
knock off , lash up , let on , let on like , like , likeness , load ,
locum tenens , make a pretense , make as if , make believe , make like ,
make out like , make up , make-believe , makeshift , malingerer ,
man of straw , man-made , manipulate , mannerist , manufacture ,
metaphor , metonymy , mimicked , mirror , mock , modify , mountebank ,
nearly reproduced , next best thing , not unlike , overact , pack ,
paper tiger , paste , pasticcio , pastiche , performer , personnel ,
perverted , phony , picture , pinch , pinch hitter , pinchbeck ,
plagiarize , plagiarized , plant , play , play a part , play a scene ,
play by ear , play possum , playact , playactor , portrait , poser ,
poseur , pretend , pretended , pretender , profess , provisional , proxy ,
pseudo , put on , put on airs , put-on , put-up job , quack ,
quacksalver , quackster , quasi , queer , reecho , reflect , relief ,
repeat , replacement , representation , representative , resemblance ,
resembling , reserve , reserves , retouch , rig , ringer , rip-off , salt ,
saltimbanco , scrap the plan , second string , secondary , self-styled ,
sell , semblance , sham , shammer , shoddy , sign , similar , similitude ,
simulacrum , simulate , simulated , smacking of , snide , so-called ,
soi-disant , something like , sophisticate , spares , spoof , spurious ,
stack , stand-in , stopgap , straw man , strike off , sub , substituent ,
substitute , substitution , succedaneum , suggestive of , superseder ,
supplanter , supposititious , surrogate , swindle , symbol , synecdoche ,
synthetic , tamper with , temporary , tentative , third string ,
throw off , throw together , tin , tinsel , titivated , token , toss off ,
toss out , trump up , tug the heartstrings , twisted , unauthentic ,
understudy , ungenuine , uniform with , unnatural , unreal , utility ,
utility player , vamp , vicar , vicarious , vice-president ,
vice-regent , warped , wear , whip up , whited sepulcher , whomp up ,
wing it


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