What is the difference between fake and faux?
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As adjectives the difference between fake and faux is that fake is not real; false, fraudulent while faux is fake or artificial. 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. As a verb 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.
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fake English
Etymology 1
( wikipedia fake)
The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775
Adjective
( en-adj)
Not real; false, fraudulent.
- Which fur coat looks fake ?
Synonyms
* See also
Antonyms
* genuine
Noun
( en noun)
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.
Synonyms
* (soccer move) feint, (ice hokey move) deke
Verb
( fak)
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.
Synonyms
* (To modify fraudulently) adulterate
* (To make a false display) pass off, pose
Derived terms
* fake out
* faker
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), to coil a rope .
Noun
( en noun)
(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
Verb
(fak)
(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.
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faux English
Adjective
( -)
Fake or artificial
- clothing made from faux leather
- a faux -archaic style of speech
- faux wine
Antonyms
* genuine
Derived terms
* faux pas
* fauxhawk / fohawk
* fauxhemian
* fauxlex
* fauxmosexual
* fauxnetic
* fauxtatoes
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