fabrication
pronunciation
How to pronounce fabrication in British English:
UK [ˌfæbrɪ'keɪʃn]
How to pronounce fabrication in American English:
US [ˌfæbrɪˈkeʃən]
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- Noun:
- a deliberately false or improbable account
- writing in a fictional form
- the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
- the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
- the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
Word Origin
- fabrication (n.)
- c. 1500, "manufacturing, construction," from Middle French fabrication and directly from Latin fabricationem (nominative fabricatio) "a structure, construction, a making," noun of action from past participle stem of fabricare "to make, construct" (see fabricate). Meaning "lying, falsehood, forgery" is from 1790.
Example
- 1. The goal of developing this robot is to research new ways for on-site fabrication .
- 2. And now it has to deal with an impasse over the evidence from america that iran dismisses as a fabrication .
- 3. He cautions that further work is needed to ease fabrication and integration of the materials , but adds , " this is an intriguing slow-wave structure that should inspire new developments in this field . "
- 4. But it is a fabrication ; mahan never wrote it .
- 5. It is possible , although not likely , that the magazine is a fabrication , a production of a western intelligence agency that wants to undermine al qaeda by eroding confidence in its production and distribution networks .