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Biology vs Fake - What's the difference?

biology | fake |

As nouns the difference between biology and fake

is that biology is the study of all life or living matter while fake is something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

As an adjective fake is

not real; false, fraudulent.

As a verb fake is

to cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

biology

English

(wikipedia biology)

Noun

  • The study of all life or living matter.
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  • The living organisms of a particular region.
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  • The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
    • the biology of the whale

    Synonyms

    * , life science, life sciences

    Meronyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * actinobiology * aerobiology * agrobiology * astrobiology * chemical biology * chronobiology * cryobiology * developmental biology * electrobiology * evolutionary biology * evolutionary developmental biology * exobiology * forensic biology * geobiology * geomicrobiology * glycobiology * hydrobiology * immunobiology * macrobiology * marine biology * microbiology * molecular biology * neurobiology * nonbiology * palaeobiology * paleobiology * pathobiology * photobiology * phytobiology * psychobiology * radiation biology * radiobiology * sociobiology * soil microbiology * space biology * structural biology * synthetic biology * synthetic-biology * systems biology * xenobiology

    Related terms

    * biological * biologically * biologic * biologism * biologist * biologize

    See also

    *

    fake

    English

    Etymology 1

    (wikipedia fake) The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Not real; false, fraudulent.
    • Which fur coat looks fake ?
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Antonyms
    * genuine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
  • A trick; a swindle.
  • (soccer) Move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage when dribbling an opponent.
    • Synonyms
    * (soccer move) feint, (ice hokey move) deke

    Verb

    (fak)
  • To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
  • To make; to construct; to do. (rfexample)
  • To modify 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.
  • To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
  • To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
    • Synonyms
    * (To modify fraudulently) adulterate * (To make a false display) pass off, pose
    Derived terms
    * fake out * faker

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), to coil a rope .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

    • Verb

    (fak)
  • (nautical) 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.