transcription, транскрипция: [ feɪk ]
( fakes, faking, faked)
1.
A fake fur or a fake painting, for example, is a fur or painting that has been made to look valuable or genuine, usually in order to deceive people.
The bank manager is said to have issued fake certificates.
ADJ : usu ADJ n
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A fake is something that is fake.
It is filled with famous works of art, and every one of them is a fake.
N-COUNT
2.
If someone fakes something, they try to make it look valuable or genuine, although in fact it is not.
He faked his own death last year to collect on a $1 million insurance policy.
...faked evidence.
VERB : V n , V-ed
3.
Someone who is a fake is not what they claim to be, for example because they do not have the qualifications that they claim to have.
= fraud
N-COUNT
4.
If you fake a feeling, emotion, or reaction, you pretend that you are experiencing it when you are not.
Jon faked nonchalance...
Maturity and emotional sophistication can’t be faked.
VERB : V n , V n