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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FABRICATION, n.
1. The act of framing or constructing construction; as the fabrication of a bridge or of a church.
2. The act of manufacturing.
3. The act of devising falsely; forgery.
4. That which is fabricated; a falsehood. The story is doubtless a fabrication.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a deliberately false or improbable account [syn: fabrication, fiction, fable]
2: writing in a fictional form [syn: fabrication, fictionalization, fictionalisation]
3: the act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing is vital to Great Britain" [syn: fabrication, manufacture, manufacturing]
4: the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) [syn: fabrication, assembly] [ant: disassembly, dismantlement, dismantling]
5: the deliberate act of deviating from the truth [syn: lying, prevarication, fabrication]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. the act or process of fabricating 2. a product of fabrication; especially lie, falsehood

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fabrication Fab`ri*ca"tion, n. [L. fabricatio; cf. F. fabrication.] 1. The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. --Burke. 2. That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication. Syn: See Fiction.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see fabricate

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Construction. 2. Manufacture. 3. Invention, fiction, forgery, falsehood, figment, coinage of the brain, fable.

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