fabrication

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"It looks like our fabrication is in place," Sleiman said.

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  1. The act of framing or constructing; construction; formation; manufacture. The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horrour. Burke, Rev. in France. The fabrication of tapestry with the needle had always been a favorite occupation for ladies of the highest rank. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 565.
  2. The act of devising or contriving falsely; fictitious invention; forgery: as, the fabrication of testimony; the fabrication of a report. Not only the fabrication and false making of the whole of a written instrument, but a fraudulent insertion, alteration, or erasure, even of a letter, in any material part of a true instrument, whereby a new operation is given to it, will amount to forgery. Russell, Crimes and Misdemeanours, II.
  3. That which is fabricated; especially, a falsely contrived representation or statement; a falsehood: as, the story is a fabrication. For my part, I can only say, that what is related of the first audience with the king, and many of the following pages, seem to me to be fabrications of people that never have been in Abyssinia. Bruce, Source of the Nile, ll. 151.
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  • But all our fabrication is down in this lower left corner. —  Neil Gershenfeld on Fab Labs
  • "It looks like our fabrication is in place," Sleiman said. —  Nano Tech Wire
  • "It looks like our fabrication is in place," said Dr Sleiman. —  Lab Canada - Headline News
  • But prosecutor Laurie Sartorio - who called witness MLD-24's testimony a "fabrication" - questioned him about his encounter with Lukic's parents, asking if their comments were his only indication that Lukic had been fighting in Kopito on June 13. —  Institute for War & Peace Reporting:
  • The footage showing men in green military fatigues beating men -- some in Buddhist monks 'robes -- lying handcuffed on the ground, was released by Tibet's Dharamsala, India-based government-in-exile on March 20 and described as a fabrication by China's official Xinhua News Agency yesterday.
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  1. = Danish Swedish fabrikation, from French fabrication = Provencal fabricatio = Spanish fabricacion = Portuguese fabricação = Italian fabbricazione, from Latin fabricatio(n-), a making, framing, etc., from fabricari, make: see fabricate.
 

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