Fabricate
verb
To make or build something.
The company fabricates car parts for several major auto manufacturers.
Often appears as...
- fabricate auto parts
- fabricate machinery
verb
To create a false story or excuse.
He was caught fabricating an alibi to avoid punishment.
Often appears as...
- fabricate an alibi
- fabricate a story
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Disapproving
verb
To create or design a plan or idea.
The team had to fabricate a new strategy for success.
Often appears as...
- fabricate a plan
- fabricate a strategy
verb
To produce something in order to deceive.
Someone had fabricated evidence in the case.
Often appears as...
- fabricate evidence
- fabricate a claim
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Disapproving
Legal
verb
To make or build something.
The company fabricates car parts for several major auto manufacturers.
Often appears as...
- fabricate auto parts
- fabricate machinery
verb
To create a false story or excuse.
He was caught fabricating an alibi to avoid punishment.
Often appears as...
- fabricate an alibi
- fabricate a story
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To create or design a plan or idea.
The team had to fabricate a new strategy for success.
Often appears as...
- fabricate a plan
- fabricate a strategy
verb
To produce something in order to deceive.
Someone had fabricated evidence in the case.
Often appears as...
- fabricate evidence
- fabricate a claim
Usage tips
Disapproving
Legal
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Pro Tip 1/2Industrial Context
Use 'fabricate' when discussing creation of physical goods in an industrial or manufacturing setting.
The factory fabricates steel beams for construction.
Pro Tip 2/2Technical Precision
'Fabricate' implies a process involving careful work and attention to detail, often using machines.
Technicians fabricate delicate electronics components.
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Paper towns and why...
This fabrication of place could be one of the world's greatest achievements, because no one belongs here; everyone does. As I walked around this morning, I noticed most of the buildings were huge mirrors reflecting the sun back into the desert. But unlike most mirrors, which present you with an outside view of yourself embedded in a place, these mirrors come back empty.
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The incredible...
So if this is the future, the Augmented Age, and we're going to be augmented cognitively, physically and perceptually, what will that look like? What is this wonderland going to be like? I think we're going to see a world where we're moving from things that are fabricated to things that are farmed.
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Is there a reproducibilit...
In addition, little incentive exists to publish results unsupportive of the expected hypothesis. That results in a deluge of agreement between what was expected and what was found. In rare occasions, this can even lead to deliberate fabrication,
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How we can use light to...
and really fine-tune our chip designs, before spending the millions of dollars to fabricate each chip. Our new chip inventions slim down the system, speed it up and enable rapid scanning and de-scattering of light to see deep into our bodies.
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How do you build a...
which has all the elements we require for scalability and can be dropped in as part of a larger array to make a computer what remains is to fabricate complex structures that can actually implement this computer and advances are
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What are animals...
it uses the parts it has in stock, off the shelf, before it fabricates a new twist. And our brain has come to us through the enormity of the deep sweep of time. If you look at the human brain compared to a chimpanzee brain,
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Architecture that's...
but for the entire community as a whole. We call this the locally fabricated way of building, or "lo-fab," and it has four hire locally, source regionally, train where you can and most importantly,
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Why This Museum Stores...
so than any other species that has lived on the planet and we see animals in our environment that are having to adapt to the world that we have essentially fabricated for them and that includes
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Why "biofabrication" is...
introducing a whole new world of possibility around how we can design and make things. I discovered a radical manufacturing biofabrication. Literally, fabricating with biology.
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Bunker Roy: Learning...
than anyone I know anywhere in the world guaranteed. Food, if you come to the Barefoot College, is solar cooked. But the people who fabricated that solar cooker are women,
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Paper towns and why...
This fabrication of place could be one of the world's greatest achievements, because no one belongs here; everyone does. As I walked around this morning, I noticed most of the buildings were huge mirrors reflecting the sun back into the desert. But unlike most mirrors, which present you with an outside view of yourself embedded in a place, these mirrors come back empty.
Video examples
The incredible...
So if this is the future, the Augmented Age, and we're going to be augmented cognitively, physically and perceptually, what will that look like? What is this wonderland going to be like? I think we're going to see a world where we're moving from things that are fabricated to things that are farmed.
Video examples
Is there a reproducibilit...
In addition, little incentive exists to publish results unsupportive of the expected hypothesis. That results in a deluge of agreement between what was expected and what was found. In rare occasions, this can even lead to deliberate fabrication,
Video examples
How we can use light to...
and really fine-tune our chip designs, before spending the millions of dollars to fabricate each chip. Our new chip inventions slim down the system, speed it up and enable rapid scanning and de-scattering of light to see deep into our bodies.
Video examples
How do you build a...
which has all the elements we require for scalability and can be dropped in as part of a larger array to make a computer what remains is to fabricate complex structures that can actually implement this computer and advances are
Video examples
What are animals...
it uses the parts it has in stock, off the shelf, before it fabricates a new twist. And our brain has come to us through the enormity of the deep sweep of time. If you look at the human brain compared to a chimpanzee brain,
Video examples
Architecture that's...
but for the entire community as a whole. We call this the locally fabricated way of building, or "lo-fab," and it has four hire locally, source regionally, train where you can and most importantly,
Video examples
Why This Museum Stores...
so than any other species that has lived on the planet and we see animals in our environment that are having to adapt to the world that we have essentially fabricated for them and that includes
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Why "biofabrication" is...
introducing a whole new world of possibility around how we can design and make things. I discovered a radical manufacturing biofabrication. Literally, fabricating with biology.
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Bunker Roy: Learning...
than anyone I know anywhere in the world guaranteed. Food, if you come to the Barefoot College, is solar cooked. But the people who fabricated that solar cooker are women,
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Jessica Lynch
American Soldier
I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.
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Junior Seau
American Athlete
Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.
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Max Joseph
American Director
The more we are involved in social media, the easier it is for someone to lie about who they are and to kind of fabricate a story about them, fabricate a life that is grander than the one that they lead.
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John Maeda
American Designer
Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.
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Jenny Mollen
American Actress
I don't want to read about the fabricated version of someone's life. I want to know what haunts you, what are you ashamed of, what embarrasses you, what do you wish was different?
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Neil Gershenfeld
American Scientist
You don't need personal fabrication in the home to buy what you can buy because you can buy it. You need it for what makes you unique, just like personalization.
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Katy Perry
American Musician
I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.
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Neri Oxman
American Architect
Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.
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Rosemary Clooney
American Musician
I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.
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Jessica Lynch
American Soldier
I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.
Quote examples
Junior Seau
American Athlete
Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.
Quote examples
Max Joseph
American Director
The more we are involved in social media, the easier it is for someone to lie about who they are and to kind of fabricate a story about them, fabricate a life that is grander than the one that they lead.
Quote examples
John Maeda
American Designer
Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.
Quote examples
Jenny Mollen
American Actress
I don't want to read about the fabricated version of someone's life. I want to know what haunts you, what are you ashamed of, what embarrasses you, what do you wish was different?
Quote examples
Neil Gershenfeld
American Scientist
You don't need personal fabrication in the home to buy what you can buy because you can buy it. You need it for what makes you unique, just like personalization.
Quote examples
Katy Perry
American Musician
I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.
Quote examples
Neri Oxman
American Architect
Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.
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Rosemary Clooney
American Musician
I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.
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