Concoct vs Fake - What's the difference?
concoct | fake |
to prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking
to contrive something using skill or ingenuity
Not real; false, fraudulent.
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.
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.
(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
(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.
As verbs the difference between concoct and fake
is that concoct is to prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking while fake is to cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.As an adjective fake is
not real; false, fraudulent.As a noun fake is
something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.concoct
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Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* concocter * concoctor * concoctivefake
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Etymology 1
(wikipedia fake) The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775Adjective
(en-adj)- Which fur coat looks fake ?