What's the difference between ersatz and fake?

Ersatz


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For an industry built on selling ersatz rebellion to teenagers, finding the moral high ground was always going to be tricky.
  • (2) Firmino was hardly in the picture but maybe this is the point of his ersatz position.
  • (3) Over the last eight days the ersatz wig has tumbled from his head.
  • (4) His private palace, seven miles outside town in Kawele, brimmed with paintings, sculptures, stained glass, ersatz Louis XIV furniture, marble from Carrara in Italy and two swimming pools surrounded by loudspeakers playing his beloved Gregorian chants or classical music.
  • (5) The buildings appear to be an ersatz nod to the old world by a designer with a stucco fetish, and are hard to ignore due to the blitzkrieg of colour unleashed on innocent passers-by.
  • (6) The supreme irony is that when Klimt painted his so-called golden portrait of Adele, his style had hardened into a crass ersatz modernism, so the price it fetched for Altmann makes it the most expensive postcard in the world.
  • (7) Especially on-trend these days is an ersatz, kitschy friendliness .
  • (8) Phaco-Ersatz represents a new approach to cataract surgery and the correction of aphakia.
  • (9) Despite a combination of injuries and suspensions to key personnel leaving John Carver’s side with a distinctly ersatz look, Newcastle were not quite so makeshift in practice.
  • (10) In the mountains, ersatz approximations of a Swiss ski resort have sprouted.
  • (11) Each of these ersatz soldiers presumably made their own calculations as to where personal advantage might lie.
  • (12) Pursuing his father's Italian roots he lived there for three years learning to cook, and the food he serves - a lot of offal, sweet and sour sauces for meats, gnarly rustic pasta dishes - is, he says, the antithesis of the ersatz version of Italian served in New York's old-fashioned red-sauce restaurants.
  • (13) That wasn't a million miles away from an ersatz recreation of the famous Dennis Bergkamp goal, in terms of field position of the two players, anyway.
  • (14) On day three it's the duck confit again, because "they do get the skin crisp don't they, not like all those terribly ersatz versions you get in Islington".
  • (15) Ersatz sub-Ronaldo teamsheet drama: Fabregas may yet not start!
  • (16) Sylvia Robinson from Grimsby's real Brides and Maids store, told the Grimsby Telegraph that Baron Cohen was "ridiculous", but said she saw the funny side of the ersatz movie version.
  • (17) What we have been observing – wage stagnation [PDF] and rising inequality , even as wealth increases – does not reflect the workings of a normal market economy, but of what I call ersatz capitalism.
  • (18) The implications of that defense relative to the use of ersatz nutrients are explored.
  • (19) Doubling back further up Granby Street, one reaches some of the appalling "regenerative" modern housing that has replaced the terraced streets already fallen to Liverpool's random wrecking ball: some of them – ersatz Lego bricks of the cheapest materials – are already dilapidated, while others almost new are managing to last a few years, like Michael Simon's mother's new house on Cawdor Street.
  • (20) A cavalcade of readers, mainly women, mostly in full Regency costume, congregated for a joyous weekend of workshops and lectures, receptions and dinners, a costume parade (past ersatz saloons and Tex-Mex restaurants), crowned by a Regency ball.

Fake


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
  • (v. t.) To make; to construct; to do.
  • (v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
  • (n.) A trick; a swindle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With a plot based around fake (or real?)
  • (2) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
  • (3) I said, ''It's the fake femininity I can't stand, and the counterfeit voice.
  • (4) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
  • (5) There is never any chink in her composure – any hint of tension – and while I can't imagine what it must feel like to be so at ease with one's world, I don't think she is faking it.
  • (6) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
  • (7) Computer says no: Amazon uses AI to combat fake reviews Read more “Imagine as the CEO of a major company you go off and spend £100m on gathering data,” Hammond says.
  • (8) Played out against the backdrop of the 1979 hostage crisis, Argo spins the account of a joint Hollywood-CIA mission to spring six imperiled Americans from revolutionary Iran, using a fake movie production as a decoy.
  • (9) Jim Devine, Labour MP for Livingston, was reportedly under investigation for invoices he submitted for electrical work worth more than £2,000 from a company with an allegedly fake address and an invalid VAT number.
  • (10) He said the allegations made in Iran's media are based on fabricated contents or fake accounts and are untrue.
  • (11) A pair of bizarre photographs have been widely circulated online, that appear to show alleged EgyptAir hijacker Seif Eldin Mustafa posing for pictures with passengers in what is believed to have been a fake suicide belt.
  • (12) When conservative outlets accused the site of censoring right-leaning news stories , Zuckerberg fired the trending stories team and replaced them with an algorithm – which almost immediately began to distribute fake news .
  • (13) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
  • (14) At the end of the hearing Trump pointed to the testimony of James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, claiming that Clapper had “reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion with Russia and Trump”.
  • (15) Not only was the entire plot fake, but it seemed only Hussain's Islamic coaching, talk of cash rewards and constant attention was keeping it alive.
  • (16) Halderman received a fake $2m check from Letterman, went to work and was then arrested after leaving his office at CBS News.
  • (17) Plus we know that Facebook can already identify truly fake news – Zuckerberg pointed this out over the weekend.
  • (18) The Normandie Design is plum in the middle of the amiable chaos of South American city life, in Santa Efigênia, where the streets are thronged with tiny electronics stores – great if you fancy a fake Chinese iPhone.
  • (19) It was one of the fake tongue extensions from The Exorcist, with a note saying, 'Just stick a dab of peanut butter on the end and put it on.'
  • (20) And it helps you spot phishing emails, because if an email appears in your shopping account purporting to come from your bank, for example, you'll immediately know it's a fake.

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