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(noun) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) |
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Synonyms: assembly |
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Related Words: building, construction |
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(noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials |
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Synonyms: manufacture |
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Related Words: creating from raw materials, formation, prefabrication, shaping |
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(noun) writing in a fictional form |
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Synonyms: fictionalisation, fictionalization |
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Related Words: authorship, composition, penning, writing |
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(noun) a deliberately false or improbable account |
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Synonyms: fable, fiction |
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Related Words: canard, false statement, falsehood, falsity, untruth |
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(noun) the deliberate act of deviating from the truth |
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Synonyms: lying, prevarication |
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Related Words: falsehood, falsification, fibbing, misrepresentation, paltering |
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