(adv.) Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.
(adv.) Fabricated in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin.
(adv.) Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist.
(n.) That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
(n.) That which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive by passing the false for the true; as, the bank note was a counterfeit.
(n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.
(v. t.) To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person.
(v. t.) To imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
(v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
(v. i.) To make counterfeits.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said, ''It's the fake femininity I can't stand, and the counterfeit voice.
(2) The lobbying firms' claims about counterfeiting have been roundly rejected by the Trading Standards Institute, which claims that tobacco products are already easy to counterfeit and that it is not convinced by arguments that suggest the introduction of plain packaging will lead to an increase in counterfeiting.
(3) Many arrive on donkeys from Turkey, but there is no way of knowing which products are counterfeit and which are real.
(4) The first new £1 coin since 1983 is an attempt to end counterfeiting.
(5) He focuses on counterfeit and substandard medicines and the role of intellectual property and trade law on access to medicines in less developed countries.
(6) Look,” Kasich said as he celebrated his big win in his home state of Ohio, “this is all I got.” At this point, he held open his suit jacket to reveal no counterfeit watches, concealed weapons or wads of cash.
(7) In June 2012, the month that Butt was sentenced to 15 years in jail, the DSI smashed another major counterfeiting syndicate, this one accused of issuing some 3,000 falsified passports and visas over the five years of its existence, two of them to Iranians convicted of carrying out a series of botched bomb attacks in Bangkok in February 2012, supposedly aimed at Israeli diplomats .
(8) The Royal Mint says: "Under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 it is an offence to knowingly pass on a counterfeit £1 coin."
(9) She suggested that the US authorities were guilty either of “a technically incompetent misinterpretation of the facts” or had been fooled by a “counterfeit in order to frame my company”.
(10) In a further ruse to try to beat the counterfeiters, it has “milled” edges, with grooves on alternate sides.
(11) Yahoo plan Last month Alibaba said it had removed 90m listings for goods that might have infringed trademarks and had spent $161m in the past two years on blocking counterfeit goods and improving consumer protection.
(12) An anti-counterfeiting group said on Friday it was suspending Alibaba’s membership following an uproar by some companies that view the Chinese e-commerce giant as the world’s largest marketplace for fakes .
(13) The act, which became effective on July 21, 1988, is intended to reduce public health risks from adulterated, misbranded, and counterfeit drug products that enter the marketplace through drug diversion.
(14) Hill's lawyer complains that as a result the prisoner is left "with no means for determining whether the drugs for his lethal injection are safe and will reliably perform their function, or if they are tainted, counterfeited, expired or compromised in some other way."
(15) ONdigital eventually ceased trading amid a wave of counterfeiting by pirates, leaving the lucrative pay-TV field clear for Sky.
(16) , in which cartoon eastern European gangsters drool over the financial possibilities of regulation – although anti-counterfeiting measures can easily be incorporated into plain packets.
(17) "Counterfeit £1 coins are not genuine currency and no value can therefore be given for them," says the Mint.
(18) But, there's no doubt counterfeit coins and notes can seriously damage small businesses.
(19) It is putting out a call for members to help support the fight against Drip, pushing its participation in the defeat of the " snoopers' charter " and Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta) as evidence of what can be accomplished.
(20) While the Royal Mint assures us that replacing one coin with another is not as expensive as we might think, this may be because much of the additional bill – £45m as someone estimated on Radio 4's Today programme (which eerily recalls the number of counterfeit pounds thought to be in circulation) – will, it seems, be paid by business, and by us.
Intend
Definition:
(v. t.) To stretch' to extend; to distend.
(v. t.) To strain; to make tense.
(v. t.) To intensify; to strengthen.
(v. t.) To apply with energy.
(v. t.) To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey.
(v. t.) To fix the mind on; to attend to; to take care of; to superintend; to regard.
(v. t.) To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); to be intent upon; to mean; to design; to plan; to purpose; -- often followed by an infinitely with to, or a dependent clause with that; as, he intends to go; he intends that she shall remain.
(v. t.) To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to mold.
(v. t.) To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(2) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
(3) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
(4) This investigation examined the extent to which attitudes of doctors who participated in a one-year training programme for general practice changed in intended directions by training.
(5) Being the decision-making agent, the rehabilitee must therefore be offered typical situational fragments of a possible educational and vocational future, intended on the one hand to inform him of occupational alternatives and, on the other, to provide initial experience.
(6) This paper gives a survey of the development and the present state of the preservation of isolated lungs intended for transplantation.
(7) Like most anthems it’s intended to create unity in the face of adversity, coming from a time when America was a new country trying to forge its identity.
(8) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
(9) In 1984 the press-fit condylar knee was first introduced and was intended to provide a condylar knee system primarily for posterior cruciate retention that addressed refinements in metallurgy, prosthetic geometry and sizing, cementless fixation, inventory management, and instrumentation.
(10) This article is intended to serve as a brief review of immunobiology and immunodeficiency diseases with an indepth coverage of specialized tests generally available at the large centers.
(11) Hulk Hogan’s status as a public figure, even one who holds forth often and at length about his sex life, may have kept him from getting the kind of sympathy that the subject of the escort story immediately received, but there’s no evidence Bollea intended for anyone to see the tape.
(12) The austerity programmes administered by western governments in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis were, of course, intended as a remedy, a tough but necessary course of treatment to relieve the symptoms of debts and deficits and to cure recession.
(13) "Hints that the license fee payer will be hit are the closest the Tories come to explaining how they intend to pay for this."
(14) Opposition spokesman Matthew Guy said it was unclear how the government intended to fund the project given the federal government was yet to come to the table.
(15) Children in the first group were provided training by their parents that was intended to focus the child's attention on consonants in syllables or words and to teach discrimination between correctly and incorrectly articulated consonants.
(16) No doubt it was intended as a bold and graphic way of presenting the Iranian nuclear threat, but much of the initial response – on Twitter, at least – was ridicule.
(17) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(18) From this special coding of the intended movement static and dynamic control signals can be derived.
(19) Last month Neil Berkett, Virgin Media's chief executive, said he was "not surprised" YouView had run into trouble, given the number of partners involved, adding that the cable company intended to "take advantage" of the delay.
(20) He is now to remain with the bank until March 2014, with continued use of the bank's town house in the West End of London, intended for the bank's wealthiest clients.