Fabricate vs Built - What's the difference?
fabricate | built |
To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.
To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate computer chips.
To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.
(cooking) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl.
(informal) well-built
(build)
(obsolete) Shape; build; form of structure.
* 1764 , , Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense :
As verbs the difference between fabricate and built
is that fabricate is to form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship while built is (build).As an adjective built is
(informal) well-built.As a noun built is
(obsolete) shape; build; form of structure.fabricate
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Verb
(fabricat)Synonyms
* manufacture, cook up, make up, inventExternal links
* * ----built
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Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* built like a brick shithouse * built like a tank * well-builtVerb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- the built of a ship
- The sailor sees the burthen, the built , and the distance of a ship at sea, while she is a great way off.