Definition of "fake" in English

adjective

1. Not real; false, fraudulent.

   • Which fur coat looks fake?

2. (Of people) Insincere

noun

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

   • I suspect this passport is a fake.

2. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.

3. (archaic) A trick; a swindle

verb

1. (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.

2. (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

   • to fake a marriage
   • to fake happiness
   • to fake a smile

3. (archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

4. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is

5. (music, ambitransitive) To improvise, in jazz.

   • 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.

noun

1. (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

verb

1. (nautical) 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.