fabricate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
the company fabricates plastic chairs
Types & categories
- make hypernym
- mass-produce hyponym
- raft hyponym
Related & opposite
- lying derivation
- assembly derivation
- manufacture derivation
- manufacturing derivation
- manufacturer derivation
- producer derivation
Sense 2 verb
make up something artificial or untrue
Types & categories
- think up hypernym
- mythologize hyponym
- confabulate hyponym
- trump up hyponym
- spin hyponym
- vamp hyponym
Related & opposite
- fabrication derivation
- invention derivation
- fabrication derivation
- fibber derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lying |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | assembly |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | manufacture |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | manufacturing |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | manufacturer |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | producer |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | make |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mass-produce |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | raft |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fabrication |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | invention |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fabrication |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fibber |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | think up |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | mythologize |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | confabulate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | trump up |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | spin |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | vamp |