fabricator

[ fab-ri-key-ter ]

/ ˈfæb rɪˌkeɪ tər /

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noun

a person who makes things by art or skill and labor: He’d spent some time as a fabricator of high-end military circuit boards.

a person or company that makes something by assembling parts or sections; manufacturer: With its lapped metal panels, the complexity of the design required top skills, and the fabricator Purly Manufacturing did an outstanding job.

a person who devises or invents something, especially a lie or a fictional narrative or character: The document paints him as a serial exaggerator and fabricator rather than a heroic whistleblower.

a person who produces something fake or counterfeit:The fabricators of these forged archeological artifacts are still fooling some people even today.

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Origin of fabricator

First recorded in 1600–10; from Latin fabricātor, equivalent to fabricat(e) + -or²

Words nearby fabricator

fabricable, fabricant, fabricate, fabricated, fabrication, fabricator, Fabricius, fabric softener, Fabrikoid, Fabritius, Fabry

How to use fabricator in a sentence

Using a pipe bender from Krans’s old shop, they fabricated the engine housings, which stick out like devilish exhaust pipes.
A CIA spyplane crashed outside Area 51 a half-century ago. This explorer found it.|Sarah Scoles|January 5, 2021|Popular-Science
I tend to believe that an artist capable of fabricating and installing the piece in such a remote place was also capable of understanding that its power lay in its anonymous mystery.
Who's Really to Blame for the Monolith Shitshow|Mark Sundeen|December 4, 2020|Outside Online
As Google gets better and better at understanding content it is going to be more important to focus on real readability metrics and not something fabricated by your favorite SEO tool.
The problem with the ‘structured content’ mindset|Mordy Oberstein|November 25, 2020|Search Engine Land
Confronted with the endless number of physical systems we could fabricate out of the currently known fundamental pieces of the universe, I begin to imagine an upside-down view of physics.
Contemplating the End of Physics|Robbert Dijkgraaf|November 24, 2020|Quanta Magazine

Screen shots are also easy to fabricate and repurpose, so be skeptical of friends posting screen grabs of conversations with their friend of a friend of a friend who is a poll worker.
Seven types of election misinformation to watch out for|Abby Ohlheiser|November 2, 2020|MIT Technology Review
One of them even warned that he suspected Curveball was a fabricator who had created his story out of whole cloth.
What Bush Really Knew About WMDs|Tyler Drumheller|January 16, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Nevertheless, there was something taking, to my imagination, in the notion of being the fabricator of my own fortune.
Afloat And Ashore|James Fenimore Cooper
I am afraid that we are all given to exaggerate very much, but Mr. Turnbull is the champion fabricator.
A Roving Commission|G. A. Henty
But this was a pure legend, probably the only one of its obscure fabricator which would reach posterity.
The Growth of a Soul|August Strindberg
Some of the incidental details given are such as no fabricator would insert.
A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718|Wallace Notestein
Hume was not, indeed, himself the fabricator of the tale; but he had not any historical authority.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)|Isaac Disraeli

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