Fabricate vs Dissimulate - What's the difference?
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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.
To practise deception by concealment or omission or by feigning a false appearance.
* 1912 Booth Tarkington, The Flirt ,
To hide or disguise by adopting a false appearance.
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(rare) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.
* 1533 John Bourchier (Lord Berners), The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius 9:
Feigning; simulating; pretending.
Fabricate is a related term of dissimulate.
In lang=en terms the difference between fabricate and dissimulate
is that fabricate is to invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story while dissimulate is to hide or disguise by adopting a false appearance.As verbs the difference between fabricate and dissimulate
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 dissimulate is to practise deception by concealment or omission or by feigning a false appearance.As an adjective dissimulate is
feigning; simulating; pretending.fabricate
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(fabricat)Synonyms
* manufacture, cook up, make up, inventExternal links
* * ----dissimulate
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(en-verb)Chapter 13
- But now, as he paced alone in his apartment, now that he was not upon exhibition, now when there was no eye to behold him, and there was no reason to dissimulate or veil a single thought or feeling, his look was anything but open; the last trace of frankness disappeared; the muscles at mouth and eyes shifted; lines and planes intermingled and altered subtly; there was a moment of misty transformation -- and the face of another man emerged. It was the face of a man uninstructed in mercy; it was a shrewd and planning face: alert, resourceful, elaborately perceptive, and flawlessly hard.
- Public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows.
- That al thyng be forgiven to theim that be olde and broken, and to theim that be yonge and lusty to dissimulate for a time, and nothyng to be forgiuen to very yong children.
Derived terms
* dissimulationAdjective
(-)- (Henryson)