fake

adjective · noun · verbA1

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

fakermore fake

Superlative

fakestmost fake

1.
Not real; false, fraudulent.
Which fur coat looks fake?
2.
(Of people) Insincere

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

fakes

1.
Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
I suspect this passport is a fake.
2.
(sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
3.
(archaic)A trick; a swindle
4.
(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

fakes

V_ing/Gerund

faking

V_ed/pp

faked

1.
(transitive)To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
2.
(transitive)To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
to fake a marriage
to fake happiness
to fake a smile
3.
(archaic)To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
4.
(archaic)To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
5.
(ambitransitive)(music, ambitransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
In the face of this print music culture, 'faking' was the ability—at once respected and disrespected—to improvise a song (or a part in an arrangement) without reading the notation.
6.
(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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Đồng nghĩa

feintsoccer move feintice hockey move deke

Trái nghĩa

authentic genuine

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Nguồn gốc từ

The origin is with certainty, although first attested in 1775 in British criminals' slang. It is probably from feak, feague, itself from fegen, from vēgen, from fegōn, from *fegōn (to clean up, polish).