different between fabricate vs dissemble

English

Etymology

From Latin fabric?tus, perfect passive participle of fabricor, fabric? (“build, forge”), from fabrica (“a fabric, building, etc.”); see fabric and forge. Compare with French fabrique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæb.??.ke?t/

Verb

fabricate (third-person singular simple present fabricates, present participle fabricating, simple past and past participle fabricated)

1. (transitive) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.

   to fabricate a bridge or ship

2. (transitive) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.

   to fabricate computer chips

3. (transitive) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely.

   to fabricate a lie or story

4. (transitive, cooking) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl.

Synonyms

• manufacture, cook up, make up, trump up, invent

Related terms

• fabrication
• fabricator

Translations

Further reading

• fabricate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fabricate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Verb

fabric?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of fabric?

English

Etymology

From Latin dissimulare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d??s?mb??]

Verb

dissemble (third-person singular simple present dissembles, present participle dissembling, simple past and past participle dissembled)

1. (transitive) To disguise or conceal something.
   • 1788, John Philip Kemble, The Panel

     Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love.

2. (transitive) To feign.
   • 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel

     And like a lion, slumb'ring in the way,

     Or sleep-dissembling, while he waits his prey.

   • May 16, 1710, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 172

     He soon dissembled a sleep.

3. (transitive) To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
4. (intransitive) To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
   • XVII century, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia; from Boccace

     While to his arms the blushing bride he took,

     To seeming sadness she composed her look;

     As if by force subjected to his will,

     Though pleased, dissembling, and a woman still.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with disassemble (take apart).

Synonyms

• (to pretend not to notice): disregard, take no notice of; see also Thesaurus:ignore

Translations