not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
<adj.all> 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
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.
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.
{Faking box}, a box in which a long rope is faked; used in the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot.
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.
2. To make; to construct; to do.
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.
Fake \Fake\, n. A trick; a swindle. [Slang]
On Sunday, he co-authored a piece alleging that Mr. Maxwell planned to fake his death and escape with millions siphoned from his empire.
An artist working with film director Oliver Stone painted the fake pictographs for a scene in "The Doors," an upcoming movie about rock legend Jim Morrison.
Detective Thomas Capello said one of the worst days of his 11 years of police work came when a city resident handed him a fishing-tackle box containing the fake drugs, the ledger and a crudely written IOU.
He wore a fat suit, a fake moustache and had to cut off most of his hair.
Adding his voice to the fur debate raised this week between those opting for fake furs and those who won't settle for anything but the real thing, Ferre not only interspersed fake and real skins, but dyed real fox to look like fake leopard and zebra.
Adding his voice to the fur debate raised this week between those opting for fake furs and those who won't settle for anything but the real thing, Ferre not only interspersed fake and real skins, but dyed real fox to look like fake leopard and zebra.
Adding his voice to the fur debate raised this week between those opting for fake furs and those who won't settle for anything but the real thing, Ferre not only interspersed fake and real skins, but dyed real fox to look like fake leopard and zebra.
However, Krim said that risk should be much lower if fake binding sites rather than fake CD4 proteins are used in a drug, and that such risk would be acceptable in treating severely ill AIDS patients.
However, Krim said that risk should be much lower if fake binding sites rather than fake CD4 proteins are used in a drug, and that such risk would be acceptable in treating severely ill AIDS patients.
"If there is anything fake it's a soap opera?" she asked.
But although artifice plays a major role in property design, theater professionals strive to make their fake edibles look real.
Six armed men flashing fake police badges entered a museum and got away with millions of dollars in art by such masters as Dali and Matisse, a museum official said Thursday.
"That is not a regular thing," Universal spokeswoman Joan Bullard said of halting the tram before the fake quake. "We are doing it today and perhaps this weekend." When the tram finally entered the set, several people braced themselves.
Speaking of animals, there is a runway battle going on between the conservationist designers, who are showing only fake furs this season, and those who cannot abandon the luxurious feel of the real thing.
It takes a lot of chutzpah to close down a busy section of Interstate 15, orchestrate a simulated shootout in a crowded airport lobby, or fake the firebombing of a casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
A condominium owner who lost a legal war to keep his pickup truck in front of his home now parks a make-believe tank, complete with fake machine gun, outside.
"It allows this to exist," he says, lifting a basket of discolored fake flowers.
Gonella bristled last month at news reports that a medieval date for the shroud meant it was a fake or a fraud.
Swire said in the interview Sunday that the fake device he used at Heathrow in May was packed in a radio-cassette recorder, like the Lockerbie bomb, but used marzipan icing instead of Semtex plastic explosives.
Odom was inside a free-standing wooden cupboard, intending to fake a hangman scene, said his grandmother Hattie Carpenter, who was at the party.
The U.S. official, who saw a photocopy of the letter, said it was "not in normal English that a native English-speaker would use," but said that did not necessarily mean it was a fake.
London Weekend Television said researcher Stewart Morris was hired by Fernley Aeroclean, using a fake name.
Walker pleaded guilty on Jan. 26 to charges of trying to bribe a state senator, taking payoffs while working as a bingo inspector and conspiring to set up fake charity bingo games.
Hawkins said he obtained fake Lebanese papers and took a taxi to the Jordanian border.
Bouncers at nightspots near the Kansas State University campus earn $5 for each fake ID they confiscate under a plan devised by bar owners to reduce underage drinking.
Byrd criticized what he said was the "fake psychology" that any lawmaker who votes against a new benefit for Tel Aviv is an enemy of Israel. "That attitude has been used to considerable advantage around here for years," he complained.
In addition, businesses have sprung up to provide fake diplomas and transcripts from real schools.
The Chicago Board of Trade has fined and suspended six men linked to a scheme in which a trader donned a wig and used fake identification to access privileged information, CBOT officials said today.
Inside, it is less convincing with the flourishes of modern Italian dining (sharp lighting, murals) offset by ersatz bistro furniture and tableware, even fake gingham. Sadly, the food is a marked return to the bad old days.
There was a fire hydrant ice bucket in bright red, a fake gold Miss America trophy from 1955 and a plastic wall thermometer decorated with a woodpecker and a button that's supposed to turn blue for fair weather and pink for rain.