Fake

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     {Faking box}, a box in which a long rope is faked; used in
        the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. To make; to construct; to do.
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     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fake \Fake\, n.
     A trick; a swindle. [Slang]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  308 Moby Thesaurus words for "fake":
     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