different between fabricate vs dissimulate

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; compare obsolete dissimule (“to conceal, disguise”), from Old French dissimuler, ultimately from the same Latin root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??s?mj??le?t/, /-j?-/

Verb

dissimulate (third-person singular simple present dissimulates, present participle dissimulating, simple past and past participle dissimulated)

1. (intransitive) To practise deception by concealment or omission, or by feigning a false appearance.
2. (transitive) To disguise or hide by adopting a false appearance.
3. (transitive, rare) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.
   • 1533 John Bourchier (Lord Berners), The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius 9:

     That al thyng be forgiven to theim that be olde and broken, and to theim that be yonge and lusty to dissimulate for a time, and nothyng to be forgiuen to very yong children.

Derived terms

• dissimulation

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

dissimulate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Feigning; simulating; pretending.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “dissimulate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Italian

Verb

dissimulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of dissimulare
2. second-person plural imperative of dissimulare
3. feminine plural of dissimulato

Latin

Verb

dissimul?te

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