[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fake \fake\, n. cf. scot. faik fold, stratum of stone, as.
   faec 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

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
faking box 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fake \fake\, n.
   a trick; a swindle. slang
   1913 webster

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

fake
     adj 1: fraudulent; having a misleading appearance syn: bogus, phony,
             phoney, bastard
     2: not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine
        article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic
        fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with
        imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator
        hide" syn: false, faux, imitation, simulated
     n 1: something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
          syn: sham, postiche
     2: a person who makes deceitful pretenses syn: imposter, impostor,
         pretender, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo,
         pseud, role player
     3: football a deceptive move made by a football player syn:
        juke
     v 1: make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the
          signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "she
          forged a green card" syn: forge, counterfeit
     2: fake or falsify; "fudge the figures"; "cook the books";
        "falsify the data" syn: fudge, manipulate, falsify,
         cook, wangle, misrepresent
     3: talk through one's hat; "the politician was not well
        prepared for the debate and faked it" syn: bullshit, bull
see also:
bogus phony phoney bastard false faux 
imitation simulated sham postiche imposter 
impostor pretender faker fraud shammer 
pseudo pseud role player juke forge 
counterfeit fudge manipulate falsify cook 
wangle misrepresent bullshit bull 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

308 moby thesaurus words for "fake":
   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

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