FABRICATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fabricate mean? 

• FABRICATE (verb)
  The verb FABRICATE has 2 senses:

1. put together out of artificial or natural components or parts

2. concoct something artificial or untrue

  Familiarity information: FABRICATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FABRICATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fabricate    ... he / she / it fabricates   
Past simple: fabricated   
Past participle: fabricated   
-ing form: fabricating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put together out of artificial or natural components or parts

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

construct; fabricate; manufacture

Context example:

He manufactured a popular cereal

Hypernyms (to "fabricate" is one way to...):

make (make by shaping or bringing together constituents)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fabricate"):

mass-produce (produce on a large scale)

raft (make into a raft)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

fabrication (the deliberate act of deviating from the truth)

fabrication (the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery))

fabrication (the act of making something (a product) from raw materials)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Concoct something artificial or untrue

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

cook up; fabricate; invent; make up; manufacture

Hypernyms (to "fabricate" is one way to...):

concoct; dream up; hatch; think of; think up (devise or invent)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fabricate"):

mythologise; mythologize (construct a myth)

confabulate (unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory)

concoct; trump up (invent)

spin (make up a story)

vamp; vamp up (make up)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

fabrication (writing in a fictional form)

fabrication (a deliberately false or improbable account)

fabricator (someone who tells lies)

 Context examples 

A procedure used to acquire a negative reproduction of an oral structure for the purpose of producing a positive model or cast of the structure upon which restorations, prostheses, and dentures are fabricated.

(Dental Impression, NCI Thesaurus)

An international joint research team led by NIMS (National Institute for Materials Science) succeeded in fabricating a neuromorphic network composed of numerous metallic nanowires.

(Neuromorphic Metallic Nanowire Network Shows Human Brain-Like Functions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Bromoethene is mainly used in the production of polymers and copolymers for rubber, plastic, leather and fabricated metal production.

(Bromoethene, NCI Thesaurus)

Bis(2-Ethylhexyl) Phthalate is mainly used as a plasticizer for fabricating flexible materials for many household products.

(Diethylhexylphthalate, NCI Thesaurus)

The research involves designing the materials theoretically, fabricating them, and characterizing their properties.

(Picoscience and a plethora of new materials, National Science Foundation)

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed new guidelines for fabricating nanoscale gel materials, or nanogels, that can deliver therapeutic remedies to treat cancer in a precise manner.

(Novel nanogels hold promise for improved drug delivery to cancer patients, National Science Foundation)

With a gelling agent commonly used in preparing pastries, researchers from the Inspired Nanomaterials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory have successfully fabricated an injectable bandage to stop bleeding and promote wound healing.

(Injectable Bandage Created, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)