Definitions of fake [ɪk]

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Definition of 'fake'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) fake
to create or render so as to mislead, deceive, or defraud others:
to fake a report.

2.  fake
to pretend; feign:
to fake illness.

3.  fake
to counterfeit:
to fake a person's signature.

4.  fake
to accomplish by improvising.

5.  fake
to trick (an opponent) by making a fake (often fol. by out).

6.  fake
to improvise.

7. (v.i.) fake
to fake something; pretend.

8.  fake
to give a fake to an opponent.

9.  fake
Slang. to trick; outwit.

10. (n.) fake
anything that misleads or defrauds others by seeming to be what it is not.

11.  fake
a person who fakes.

12.  fake
a simulated play or move intended to deceive an opponent.

13. (adj.) fake
counterfeit.

14. (v.t.) fake
to lay (a rope) in a fake.

15. (n.) fake
any complete loop of a rope.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME: to coil (a rope), of obscure orig.)

Definition of 'fake'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) fake, sham, postiche
something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

2. (noun) imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
a person who makes deceitful pretenses

3. (adj) juke, fake
(football) a deceptive move made by a football player

4. (adj) bogus, fake, phony, phoney, bastard
fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

5. (verb) fake, false, faux, imitation, simulated
not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
"it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide"

6. (verb) forge, fake, counterfeit
make a copy of with the intent to deceive
"he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"

7. (verb) fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent
tamper, with the purpose of deception
"Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

8. (verb) talk through one's hat, bullshit, bull, fake
speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
"The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"

Definition of 'fake'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) fake
made to look like sth real or official to trick people
a fake Picasso; a fake ID card; fake tears

2. (noun) fake
sth that is fake
The documents were fakes.

3. (verb) fake
to create sth that looks real or official to trick people
He fakes passports for his clients.

4. fake
to pretend sth to trick people
employees who fake illnesses

Definition of 'fake'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) fake
one of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil

2. (noun) fake
a trick; a swindle

3. (verb) fake
to coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out

4. (verb) fake
to cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob

5. (verb) fake
to make; to construct; to do

6. (verb) fake
to manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it

Definitions of 'fake'

The Roycroft Dictionary

fake
An event that occurs every four years in the United States; hence, by extension, anything popular.

Translation of 'fake'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a worthless imitation (especially intended to deceive); a forgery That picture is a fake.
Afrikaans: namaaksel, vervalsing	Arabic: تَقْليد، غِش	Bulgarian: фалшификат
Brazilian: imitação	Czech: padělek	German: die Fälschung
Danish: forfalskning; efterlignin	Greek: απομίμηση	Spanish: falsificación
Estonian: võltsing	Farsi: هر چیز جعلی	Finnish: väärennös
French: faux	Hebrew: זִיוּף	Hindi: नकल
Croatian: falsifikat, krivotvorina	Hungarian: hamisítvány	Indonesian: pemalsuan, imitasi
Icelandic: eftirlíking	Italian: falso	Japanese: にせ物
Korean: 가짜	Lithuanian: klastotė, falsifikatas	Latvian: viltojums; pakaļdarinājum
Malay: imitasi	Dutch: vervalsing	Norwegian: etterlikning, forfalsknin
Polish: fałszerstwo, imitacja	Persian: هر چیز جعلی	Pashto: جعل كارى كول: (اصط). ځان
Portuguese: falsificação	Romanian: imitaţie	Russian: подделка
Slovak: falzifikát	Slovenian: ponaredek	Serbian: lažnjak
Swedish: förfalskning	Thai: ของปลอม	Turkish: sahte/taklitşey
Taiwanese: 贗品	Ukrainian: підробка; фальшивка	Urdu: جعلی ، نقلی
Vietnamese: đồ giả	Chinese: 赝品
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