'Fake' definitions:
Definition of 'Fake'
From: GCIDE
- Fake \Fake\, n. [Cf. Scot. faik fold, stratum of stone, AS. f[ae]c space, interval, G. fach compartment, partition, row, and E. fay to fit.] (Naut.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fake'
From: GCIDE
- Fake \Fake\, v. t. (Naut.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- Faking box, a box in which a long rope is faked; used in the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fake'
From: GCIDE
- Fake \Fake\, v. t. [Cf. Gael. faigh to get, acquire, reach, or OD. facken to catch or gripe.] [Slang in all its senses.]
- 1. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make; to construct; to do. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To manipulate 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fake'
From: GCIDE
- Fake \Fake\, n. A trick; a swindle. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fake'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act,
- act a part,
- act like,
- actor,
- ad-lib,
- adulterate,
- affect,
- affected,
- affecter,
- agent,
- alike,
- alter,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- aped,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assume,
- assumed,
- backup,
- bastard,
- blagueur,
- bluff,
- bluffer,
- bogus,
- borrow,
- brummagem,
- certified copy,
- change,
- changeling,
- charlatan,
- cheat,
- chorus,
- clinquant,
- colorable,
- colored,
- comparison,
- concoct,
- concocted,
- consimilar,
- cook,
- cook up,
- copied,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cover up,
- crib,
- dash off,
- deceiver,
- deception,
- deputy,
- dissemble,
- dissimulate,
- distorted,
- ditto,
- do,
- do a bit,
- do like,
- do offhand,
- doctor,
- double,
- dramatize,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- echo,
- ectype,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- extemporize,
- fabricate,
- fabricated,
- factitious,
- fair copy,
- faithful copy,
- faked,
- fakement,
- faker,
- false,
- falsified,
- falsify,
- fantasize,
- favoring,
- feign,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- fill-in,
- flam,
- following,
- forge,
- forged,
- forgery,
- four-flush,
- fourflusher,
- frame-up,
- framed,
- fraud,
- fraudulent,
- fudge,
- gammon,
- garbled,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- go like,
- gyp,
- hatch,
- histrionize,
- hoax,
- hoaxer,
- hoke,
- hoke up,
- hokey,
- hollow man,
- homogeneous,
- humbug,
- hypocritical,
- icon,
- identical,
- illegitimate,
- image,
- imitate,
- imitated,
- imitation,
- impersonator,
- impostor,
- improvisate,
- improvise,
- invent,
- invented,
- juggle,
- junk,
- junky,
- jury-rig,
- knock off,
- lash up,
- let on,
- let on like,
- like,
- likeness,
- load,
- locum tenens,
- make a pretense,
- make as if,
- make believe,
- make like,
- make out like,
- make up,
- make-believe,
- makeshift,
- malingerer,
- man of straw,
- man-made,
- manipulate,
- mannerist,
- manufacture,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mimicked,
- mirror,
- mock,
- modify,
- mountebank,
- nearly reproduced,
- next best thing,
- not unlike,
- overact,
- pack,
- paper tiger,
- paste,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- performer,
- personnel,
- perverted,
- phony,
- picture,
- pinch,
- pinch hitter,
- pinchbeck,
- plagiarize,
- plagiarized,
- plant,
- play,
- play a part,
- play a scene,
- play by ear,
- play possum,
- playact,
- playactor,
- portrait,
- poser,
- poseur,
- pretend,
- pretended,
- pretender,
- profess,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- pseudo,
- put on,
- put on airs,
- put-on,
- put-up job,
- quack,
- quacksalver,
- quackster,
- quasi,
- queer,
- reecho,
- reflect,
- relief,
- repeat,
- replacement,
- representation,
- representative,
- resemblance,
- resembling,
- reserve,
- reserves,
- retouch,
- rig,
- ringer,
- rip-off,
- salt,
- saltimbanco,
- scrap the plan,
- second string,
- secondary,
- self-styled,
- sell,
- semblance,
- sham,
- shammer,
- shoddy,
- sign,
- similar,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- simulate,
- simulated,
- smacking of,
- snide,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- something like,
- sophisticate,
- spares,
- spoof,
- spurious,
- stack,
- stand-in,
- stopgap,
- straw man,
- strike off,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- suggestive of,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- supposititious,
- surrogate,
- swindle,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- synthetic,
- tamper with,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- third string,
- throw off,
- throw together,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- token,
- toss off,
- toss out,
- trump up,
- tug the heartstrings,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- understudy,
- ungenuine,
- uniform with,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- utility,
- utility player,
- vamp,
- vicar,
- vicarious,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- warped,
- wear,
- whip up,
- whited sepulcher,
- whomp up,
- wing it