different between fabricate vs fib

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

Probably from fable; compare fibble-fable (“nonsense”).

Noun

fib (plural fibs)

1. (informal) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
   • 1878, Henry James, The Europeans Volume 1 Chapter 6

     I am told they are very sincere; they don't tell fibs.

2. (informal, rare) A liar.

Synonyms

• (lie): See Thesaurus:lie

Translations

Verb

fib (third-person singular simple present fibs, present participle fibbing, simple past and past participle fibbed)

1. (informal, intransitive) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.

Translations

Derived terms

• fibber
• fibbery
• fibster

See also

• pilfer

References

• fib in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913. (etymology)
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “fib”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Etymology 2

Shortened from fibula.

Noun

fib (plural fibs)

1. (medicine, informal) The fibula.

See also

• tib

Etymology 3

Verb

fib (third-person singular simple present fibs, present participle fibbing, simple past and past participle fibbed)

1. (archaic, thieves' cant, boxing) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike.

Synonyms

• pummel

Derived terms

• fibbing (“pummelling”)
• fibbing-gloak
• fibbing-match

References

• Farmer, John Stephen (1891) Slang and Its Analogues?^[3], volume 2, page 387

Etymology 4

Short for Fibonacci.

Noun

fib (plural fibs)

1. (neologism) A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number.

Anagrams

• BFI, BIF, FBI, IBF, bif

Volapük

Noun

fib (nominative plural fibs)

1. weakness

Declension

Derived terms

• fibot