adjective. Having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent.

noun. One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.

noun. A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.

intransitive verb. To contrive and present as genuine; counterfeit.

intransitive verb. To simulate; feign.

intransitive verb. To improvise (a passage).

intransitive verb. To deceive (an opponent) with a fake. Often used with out.

intransitive verb. To engage in feigning, simulation, or other deceptive activity.

intransitive verb. To perform a fake.

noun. One loop or winding of a coiled rope or cable.

transitive verb. To coil (a rope or cable).

To fold; tuck up.

Specifically Nautical, to coil in fakes, as a cable or a shot-line in a faking-box. See faking-box.

To make or do.

To cheat or deceive.

To steal or filch; pick, as a pocket.

To conceal the defects of by artificial means, usually with intent to deceive: as, to fake a dog or a fowl by coloring the hair or feathers.

noun. A swindle; a trick.

noun. A swindler; a trickster.

noun. Same as faker, 3.

noun. Theat., any unused or worn-out and worthless piece of property; hence, any odd bit of merchandise sold by street-venders.

noun. A soft-soldering fluid used by jewelers.

To grasp.

To give heed to.

To believe; credit.

noun. A fold or ply of anything, as a garment.

noun. Specifically Nautical, one of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil, as one of the oblong loops into which a shot-line is wound in being placed in a faking-box.

noun. A plaid. Also in diminutive form fakie, faikie. Jamieson.

noun. plural A miners' term in Scotland and the north of England for fissile sandy shales, or shaly sandstones, as distinct from the dark bituminous shales known as blaes.

transitive verb. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

transitive verb. To make; to construct; to do.

transitive verb. To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is.

noun. A trick; a swindle.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. a box in which a long rope is faked; used in the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot.

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

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

verb. 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.

adjective. Not real; false, fraudulent.

noun. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

noun. A trick; a swindle.

noun. Move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage when dribbling an opponent.

verb. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

verb. To make; to construct; to do. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

verb. To modify 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.

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

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

adjective. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article

adjective. fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

noun. something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

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genuine  

flemish fake  french fake  

artificial  counterfeit  imitative  unreal  

faker  

affect  dissemble  feign  feint  pretend  

Ache  Blake  Drake  Haik  Jake  

damn  false  phony  precious  pretty  

act  act a part  act like  actor  ad-lib  

faked  fakeness  fakes  faking