fabrication

fabrication (countable and uncountable, plural fabrications)

(uncountable) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture
the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government
(countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood.
The story is doubtless a fabrication.
- 1999 July 9, Bernard Burgoyne, “The Mind”, in The Guardian‎:
  The conscious mind refuses to admit any failure to perceive, and puts in its place a series of rationalisations which are fabrications and distortions of the real nature of things.
(cooking) The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery.
- 2011, Thomas Schneller, Kitchen Pro Series: Guide to Purchasing, page 92:
  For many years meat fabrication was done by hand, with the butchers improving their craft with the advent of higher quality metals, knives, and tools. With the coming of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s, meat processing changed.

act

Bulgarian: производство (bg) n (proizvodstvo), фабрикуване (bg) n (fabrikuvane)
Dutch: fabricage (nl) f
Finnish: valmistaminen (fi), rakentaminen (fi), väärentäminen (fi)
French: fabrication (fr) f
Georgian: ფაბრიკაცია (ka) (pabriḳacia)
Polish: fabrykacja f
Romanian: fabricare (ro) f
Russian: произво́дство (ru) n (proizvódstvo), изготовле́ние (ru) n (izgotovlénije)
Spanish: fabricación (es) f, manufactura (es) f
Tagalog: pag-imbento

that which is fabricated; a falsehood

Azerbaijani: qondarma (az), geydirmə
Bulgarian: фалшификат (bg) m (falšifikat)
Dutch: verzinsel (nl) n
Finnish: sepite (fi), tekaistu juttu, valhe (fi), väärennös (fi)
French: fabulation (fr) f
Lushootseed: səxʷʔiw̓adəb
Macedonian: измислица f (izmislica)
Ottoman Turkish: یالان (yalan)
Polish: fabrykacja f
Russian: вы́думка (ru) f (výdumka), фальсифика́ция (ru) f (falʹsifikácija), подде́лка (ru) f (poddélka), подло́г (ru) m (podlóg)
Spanish: falsedad (es) f, mentira (es) f, invención (es) f, inventada (es) f
Tagalog: imbento, gawa (tl), gawa-gawa
Urdu: جعلسازی (ja'alsāzī), جعل سازی (ja'al sāzī)
Yiddish: אויסטראַכטעניש f or n (oystrakhtenish)

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