Counterfeit vs Fabricate - What's the difference?
counterfeit | fabricate |
False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
Inauthentic.
Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
* Shakespeare
A non-genuine article; a fake.
*c.1597 William Shakespeare, Henry IV part I, Act II, scene 4:
* Macaulay
One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
(obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
* William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
* 1590 Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene Book III, canto VIII:
(obsolete) An impostor; a cheat.
* c.1597 William Shakespeare, Henry IV part I, Act V, scene 4
To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
(obsolete) To produce a faithful copy of.
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(obsolete) To feign; to mimic.
* Oliver Goldsmith, The Village Schoolmaster
Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.
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.
In transitive terms the difference between counterfeit and fabricate
is that counterfeit is to falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of while fabricate is to invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.As an adjective counterfeit
is false, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.As a noun counterfeit
is a non-genuine article; a fake.counterfeit
English
Adjective
(-)- This counterfeit watch looks like the real thing, but it broke a week after I bought it.
- counterfeit sympathy
- an arrant counterfeit rascal
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit .
- Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals.
- Thou drawest a counterfeit / Best in all Athens.
- Even Nature's self envied the same, / And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame / The thing itself.
- I fear thou art another counterfeit ; / And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
Verb
(en verb)- to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
- to counterfeit the voice of another person
- Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee / At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.