fabrication

Noun
  1. A deliberately false or improbable account (synset 106770602)
    is a type of: falsehood, falsity, untruth - a false statement
    subtypes: canard - a deliberately misleading fabrication
    same as: fable, fiction
  2. Writing in a fictional form (synset 100932855)
    is a type of: authorship, composition, penning, writing - the act of creating written works
    same as: fictionalisation, fictionalization
  3. The act of making something (a product) from raw materials (synset 100926639)
    "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing is vital to Great Britain"
    is a type of: creating from raw materials - the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it
    subtypes:
    • formation, shaping - the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
    • newspeak - deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public
    • prefabrication - the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site
    same as: manufacture, manufacturing
  4. The act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) (synset 100913832)
    is a type of: building, construction - the act of constructing something
    same as: assembly
  5. The deliberate act of deviating from the truth (synset 100753287)
    is a type of: falsification, misrepresentation - a willful perversion of facts
    subtypes: fibbing, paltering - a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear
    same as: lying, prevarication

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