(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.
Misrepresent
Definition:
(v. t.) To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly.
(v. i.) To make an incorrect or untrue representation.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the comments of myself and others that I have seen have not criticised Islam but those who seek to hijack and misrepresent Islam,” he said.
(2) Morrison told her Labor had misrepresented the Coalition's policy.
(3) Bates also rebuked the agency for misrepresenting the true scope of a major collection program for the third time in three years.
(4) King’s College themselves agree that their data was misrepresented and reiterated this point to the London Assembly’s environment committee just last week.
(5) In an intensification of Labour's attack on the justice and security bill, which will restrict access to some sensitive intelligence, the shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan accuses Clarke of misrepresenting it.
(6) The government has "grossly misrepresented" how badly firms are delivering its flagship welfare-to-work programme, the industry has said, after it was claimed just one in 20 long-term unemployed people had got permanent jobs via the scheme.
(7) The authors conclude that reliance on a single data source underestimates and potentially misrepresents both the numbers and types of poisoning deaths occurring in the state.
(8) Ben Altman Spencer, New York, USA • We believe the energy industry has been misrepresented in your article ( Big firms' gas bonanza threatens green energy , 21 April), which claims energy companies are lobbying governments and business to reject renewables in favour of natural gas.
(9) Yet by reassuring the public that things aren't too bad, Monbiot and others at best misinform, and at worst misrepresent or distort, the scientific evidence of the harmful effects of radiation exposure – and they play a predictable shoot-the-messenger game in the process.
(10) Academic misconduct entails fraudulent behavior involving some form of deception whereby one's work or the work of others is misrepresented.
(11) Police may decide to investigate whether Liam Fox's long-term travel companion profited from misrepresenting himself as an official adviser to the former defence secretary.
(12) The judge found: "Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence; that for the same reasons he has portrayed Hitler in an unwarrantedly favourable light, principally in relation to his attitude towards, and responsibility for, the treatment of the Jews."
(13) A culture of silence is rewarded; those who speak out and dare to question the system are not just cast aside, but ironically denied any protection or respect under Fifa’s own code of ethics.” Hours after Eckert’s summary, which effectively cleared Russia and Qatar to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, Garcia complained that it misrepresented the facts of his report and his conclusions and reported the matter to Fifa’s appeals committee.
(14) We, as a body, are feeling under attack; it feels like any concerns we raise are being misrepresented with hospitals portraying us as just wanting more money.” At 30, he still has about £9,000 in debt (down from about £30,000).
(15) He said that BP's spill response was "extraordinary" and that the company "did not misrepresent flow rate in a way that caused a delay in the shut-in of the well".
(16) And in passing we should note Campbell's professional dishonesty in denying at the time that there was a breakdown between the prime minister and his chancellor and later, while Brown was in power, publishing extracts that misrepresented, by omission, the foul relationship between them.
(17) Marked by intense feeling, the NHI debate has produced a crisis rhetoric that clouds the issues and misrepresents the state of medical care.
(18) Indeed, the programme misrepresents the true conditions of James Turner Street and ignores objective evidence.
(19) The only reason it seems otherwise is because the press is endlessly fascinated by Labour’s infighting and so that ends up being the only thing they report upon (except, of course, for the disruption brought about by strikes – another issue that is grossly misrepresented in the media).
(20) This is in contrast to using the usual divergent films, which may misrepresent the field borders with respect to the vertebral body level.