Fake vs Dissemble - What's the difference?
fake | dissemble | Synonyms |
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.
To disguise or conceal something.
* Shakespeare
* J. P. Kemble
To feign.
* 1681 , John Dryden,
* Tatler
To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
* XVII century, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia''; from ''Boccace
Fake is a synonym of dissemble.
As verbs the difference between fake and dissemble
is that fake is to cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob or fake can be (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 while dissemble is to disguise or conceal something.As an adjective fake
is not real; false, fraudulent.As a noun fake
is something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently or fake can be (nautical) one of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.fake
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia fake) The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775Adjective
(en-adj)- Which fur coat looks fake ?
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* genuineNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (soccer move) feint, (ice hokey move) dekeVerb
(fak)Synonyms
* (To modify fraudulently) adulterate * (To make a false display) pass off, poseDerived terms
* fake out * fakerEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), to coil a rope .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(fak)dissemble
English
Verb
(dissembl)- Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.
- Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love.
- And like a lion, slumb'ring in the way,
- Or sleep-dissembling , while he waits his prey.
- He soon dissembled a sleep.
- While to his arms the blushing bride he took,
- To seeming sadness she composed her look;
- As if by force subjected to his will,
- Though pleased, dissembling , and a woman still.