Thesaurus: fake
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
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Definitions
- n. One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
- v. t. 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.
- v. t. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
- v. t. To make; to construct; to do.
- v. t. 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.
- n. A trick; a swindle.
- adj. fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- adj. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
- n. something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- n. a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- n. (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive