fakeadj詞源 1/feɪ̯k/

• 1

  Not real; false, fraudulent.

  • Which fur coat looks fake?
  • Seeing Rossano Brazzi play an aristocratic White Russian, standing in the fakest snow that wartime supplies could buy, may be the most peculiar twist of all in the curious story of how Ayn Rand's autobiographical first novel came to the screen.
• 2

  Insincere

fakenoun詞源 1/feɪ̯k/

• 1

  Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

  • I suspect this passport is a fake.
  • Among other interesting and weighty opinions, which were in general agreement with our contentions, was one by Mr. H. A. Staddon of Goodmayes, a gentleman who had made a particular hobby of fakes in photography. His report is too long and too technical for inclusion, but, under the various headings of composition, dress, development, density, lighting, poise, texture, plate, atmosphere, focus, halation, he goes very completely into the evidence, coming to the final conclusion that when tried by all these tests the chances are not less than 80 per cent. in favour of authenticity.
• 2

  hobbieslifestylesportsA move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.

• 3

  archaicA trick; a swindle

• 4

  An impostor

fakeverb詞源 1/feɪ̯k/

• 1

  To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.

• 2

  To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

  • to fake a marriage
  • to fake happiness
• 3

  archaicTo cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

• 4

  archaicTo modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is.

  • He had a hundred similar tricks, but I never knew him fake a horse, or sell one as sound if it was not.
• 5

  entertainmentlifestylemusicTo improvise, in jazz.

  • Occasionally the opportunity arises to stand up and "fake" a jazz standard.
  • 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.

fakenoun詞源 2/feɪ̯k/

• 1

  nauticaltransportOne of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

fakeverb詞源 2/feɪ̯k/

• 1

  nauticaltransportTo 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.