Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent.
- n. One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.
- n. Sports A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.
- v. To contrive and present as genuine; counterfeit.
- v. To simulate; feign.
- v. Music To improvise (a passage).
- v. Sports To deceive (an opponent) with a fake. Often used with out.
- v. To engage in feigning, simulation, or other deceptive activity.
- v. Sports To perform a fake.
- n. One loop or winding of a coiled rope or cable.
- v. To coil (a rope or cable).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To fold; tuck up.
- Specifically Nautical, to coil in fakes, as a cable or a shot-line in a faking-box. See faking-box.
- n. A fold or ply of anything, as a garment.
- n. Specifically Nautical, one of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil, as one of the oblong loops into which a shot-line is wound in being placed in a faking-box.
- n. A plaid. Also in diminutive form fakie, faikie. Jamieson.
- n. plural A miners' term in Scotland and the north of England for fissile sandy shales, or shaly sandstones, as distinct from the dark bituminous shales known as blaes.
- To make or do.
- To cheat or deceive.
- To steal or filch; pick, as a pocket.
- To conceal the defects of by artificial means, usually with intent to deceive: as, to fake a dog or a fowl by coloring the hair or feathers.
- n. A swindle; a trick.
- n. A swindler; a trickster.
- n. Same as faker, 3.
- n. Theat., any unused or worn-out and worthless piece of property; hence, any odd bit of merchandise sold by street-venders.
- n. A soft-soldering fluid used by jewelers.
- To grasp.
- To give heed to.
- To believe; credit.
Wiktionary
- n. nautical One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
- v. nautical 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.
- adj. Not real; false, fraudulent.
- n. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
- n. A trick; a swindle.
- n. soccer Move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage when dribbling an opponent.
- v. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
- v. To make; to construct; to do. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- v. To modify 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.
- v. To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
- v. To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
- v. (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.
- v. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
- v. To make; to construct; to do.
- v. To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is.
- n. Slang A trick; a swindle.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
- adj. fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- n. something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- n. a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive
- v. speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
- n. (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- v. tamper, with the purpose of deception
Etymologies
- From Middle English faken, to coil a rope. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown.Middle English faken, to coil a rope. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Promoted to Headline (H3) on 2/28/09: Clintons promote their second Monsanto 'fake food safety' plan that destroys farmers yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Clintons promote their second Monsanto \'fake food safety\' plan that destroys farmers '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: "Food safety" bills in Congress are "harmonized with the EU" and violently opposed by American farmers.”
Clintons promote their second Monsanto 'fake food safety' plan that destroys farmers
“My disagreement arises via the term fake, (not that strong a dispute mind you on an evening when the Senate passed the Bush-backed terrorism spy bill, sure to reduce civil liberties and puts Gonzales at the forefrontwith a like-minded watcher).”
“PrezHuddleston is a prankster, who makes his ruse explicit by putting the word "fake" in his profile name.”
USA Today: College presidents around USA impersonated on Twitter
“I had done what we called a "fake album," where we did an album in twelve hours.”
“The culprit, according to a 2006 study, is having to exude what they called fake happiness.”
“Mention should be made here that the revisionist CPI leadership within years backtracked and from 1955 officially declared that what it called fake independence before was actually real independence.”
“Lindsay was in what we call fake rehab earlier this year.”
“That site displays the word "fake" prominently above the page.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“On Bostick, he tracks weapons inventory, which he calls a fake job with only two days worth of work for him to do in a month.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fake’.
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 212 more...
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bbc uk china vocab.
conservationists, estimate, threats, infertility, eating away at, endangered, furry, panel, in trouble, gongs, triumphed, caps and 1007 more...
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museum words
words from work
provenance, accession, deaccession, conservation, preparator, registrar, curator, jargon, Oz clip, bell plate, stretcher, ornate and 115 more...
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Culture Jamming
appropriate, subvertise, adbust, detournement, carnivalesque, remix, mashup, critical, protest, subvertisement, adbusting, disrupt and 47 more...
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Faux-Vintage: The Wordnik List of Fak...
A list of modern things that either purposely masquerade as antiques, are forgeries, engender nostalgia and play on peoples' desire to surround themselves with items and products that appear to be ...
forgery, fake, autograph, fake Fire King glass, forged autograph, forged painting, Coke memorabilia, reproduction items, faux-vintage, skinny neckties, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and 11 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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Loaded Dice
Off the straight and narrow; less than straight arrow.
chicanery, sophistry, pilfer, rook, diddle, fleece, grift, poach, rustle, pinch, abscond, steal and 140 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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Not Quite The Real Thang
masquerade, sham, counterfeit, shyster, phoney, bogus, pseudo, artificial, fabricated, mock, concocted, false and 158 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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peanutt10's Words
jerk, fake, dance, unknown, flabbergasted, love, tard, rebecca, can, sarcastic, helpless, overwhelmed and 10 more...
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MEC3 Lesson 142
launch, rudeness, hostility, incivility, nastiness, unkindness, occur, crusade, well-meaning, fail, disguise, dish up and 18 more...
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my kith & kin
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villain, wanker, fool, tosser, shyster, scoundrel, ratbag, rascal, spazz, wastrel, phony, moron and 41 more...
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MEC3 Lesson 133
approval, seal, embarrassing, feature, stunt, backfire, misfortune, classic, set the scene, broadcast, stage manager, proper and 55 more...
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Team Waste
wastegash, minor, minotaur, sick, ......... game on..., bare, man, gash, all about ......, allow, sicko, standard and 31 more...
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