1. n. the deliberate act of deviating from the truth (view details)
2. n. the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) (view details)
3. n. the act of making something (a product) from raw materials (view details)
4. n. writing in a fictional form (view details)
5. n. a deliberately false or improbable account (view details)

Meaning 1: (noun) the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
Synonym(s): lying ( what does lying stand for? ), prevarication ( what does prevarication stand for? )
fabrication is a kind of: falsification ( what does falsification stand for? ), misrepresentaation ( what does misrepresentaation stand for? )
fabrication is derived from: beat around the bush ( what does beat around the bush stand for? ), construct ( what does construct stand for? ), equivocate ( what does equivocate stand for? ), fabricate ( what does fabricate stand for? ), lie ( what does lie stand for? ), manufacture ( what does manufacture stand for? ), palter ( what does palter stand for? ), prevaricate ( what does prevaricate stand for? ), tergiversate ( what does tergiversate stand for? )

Meaning 2: (noun) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
Synonym(s): assembly ( what does assembly stand for? )
Opposite(s): disassembly ( what does disassembly stand for? ), dismantlement ( what does dismantlement stand for? ), dismantling ( what does dismantling stand for? )
fabrication is a kind of: building ( what does building stand for? ), construction ( what does construction stand for? )
fabrication is derived from: construct, fabricate, manufacture

Meaning 3: (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
Usage Example(s): an improvement in the manufacture of explosives, manufacturing is vital to Great Britain, the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals
Synonym(s): manufacture
fabrication is a kind of: creating from raw materials ( what does creating from raw materials stand for? )
fabrication is derived from: construct, fabricate, manufacture

Meaning 4: (noun) writing in a fictional form
Synonym(s): fictionalisation ( what does fictionalisation stand for? ), fictionalization ( what does fictionalization stand for? )
fabrication is a kind of: authorship ( what does authorship stand for? ), composition ( what does composition stand for? ), penning ( what does penning stand for? ), writing ( what does writing stand for? )
fabrication is derived from: cook up ( what does cook up stand for? ), fabricate, fictionalise ( what does fictionalise stand for? ), fictionalize ( what does fictionalize stand for? ), invent ( what does invent stand for? ), make up ( what does make up stand for? ), manufacture, novelise ( what does novelise stand for? ), novelize ( what does novelize stand for? ), retell ( what does retell stand for? )

Meaning 5: (noun) a deliberately false or improbable account
Synonym(s): fable ( what does fable stand for? ), fiction ( what does fiction stand for? )
fabrication is derived from: cook up, fabricate, fictionalise, fictionalize, invent, make up, manufacture, retell

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