different between fabricate vs fabrication

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 Middle French fabrication, from Latin fabricatio

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fæb???ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

fabrication (countable and uncountable, plural fabrications)

1. (uncountable) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture

   the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government

2. (countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood

   The story is doubtless a fabrication.

3. (cooking) The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery.

Related terms

• fabricate
• fabricating
• fabric

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.b?i.ka.sj??/

Noun

fabrication f (plural fabrications)

1. manufacture, manufacturing
2. fabrication
3. production