to fabricate
30
5.5
- verb
- /ˈfæbrɪˌkeɪt/
- Specialized
:
fabricar
- This is a valve controller I had fabricated in Glasgow.
- fabricated ankle-foot prostheses
- fabricated structural steel
- fabricated testing equipment
In conjunction with Tufts University's Silk Lab, I'm fabricating the silk poems tomorrow morning.
- In conjunction with Tufts University's Silk Lab, I'm fabricating the silk poems tomorrow morning.
- It's very small nanotechnology, the capacity to visualize and manipulate and fabricate matter at the nanometre scale.
- Katera fabricates buildings offside for final assembly on a construction side.
- And what they then did is they said, OK, so we'll name it your way, and you just pull those things out and we will fabricate the flavor and you taste it.
- I will grab parts or door some materials and I'll fabricate certain backpacks that I needed, you know, just stuff that I needed overseas.
- And it's kind of easy to fabricate things, but it's not necessarily easy to do them in a way that seems livable.
- And Aristotle thinks that there are many things that are not man made or fabricated, but are natural, and those have final causes as well.
- And you put them in one spot and you fabricate out the, the, the, the land from where they are.
Examples
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So the cables will go around the corner and I want to fabricate some brackets that hold up the unit off of the ground.
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HAN: Who not only has access to the components, but can fabricate something like that?
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And you put them in one spot and you fabricate out the, the, the, the land from where they are.
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So we we fabricated these and we're about to start testing those out also.
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You can be smarter about the way you place the tags and, and, and the way you fabricate your boxes.
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I only had time to fabricate a small amount of DayStar.
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But what we can fabricate on ship is pretty limited, so mostly they're just practical.
Fiction book (1995) -
However, in this study, three different designs were fabricated, with variations in the materials used in each.
Academic text (1990) -
But the people who fabricated that solar cooker are women.
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The engineer needed to fabricate a new part for the machine to ensure it would function properly.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To create something by putting parts together
∞
1.0
To make something by joining parts or materials
988
2.8
To make something by joining parts, like a model, plan or team
201
3.5
To build something by joining parts or materials
162
3.3
To make many things using machines
Antonyms
How Complex
33
3.7
- Specialized
30
5.5
201
3.5
169
2.9
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fabricate comes from the Latin word fabricare, which means 'to make', and is linked to faber, a 'maker' or smith; imagine a craftsman building something piece by piece. So, to fabricate a device is simply to build or make it.