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part welder, part liar — the only job title where bending metal and bending truth overlap
means A fabricator is someone (or something) that builds or manufactures things — especially metalwork — or, in another sense, someone who makes up falsehoods.
from From Latin 'fabricare,' to construct or forge, from 'faber,' a craftsman or smith — the same root that gives us 'fabric' and 'forge.' Both the maker-of-things and the maker-up-of-lies descend from that single workshop word: in both cases you're assembling something that wasn't there before. English borrowed it through 'fabricate,' and the dual meaning — honest construction and dishonest invention — has lived side by side since the word entered the language.
- metalwork
- cuts, bends, and welds raw stock into real structures
- double meaning
- also slang for someone inventing lies wholesale
- trade demand
- skilled fabricators stay scarce and well-paid worldwide
- blueprint to steel
- turns engineer drawings into ships, bridges, machines
- chip making
- semiconductor fabs are fabricators at microscopic scale
james hewes — fabricator convicted of building 3 fake vermeer paintings sold for millions in 1945
john myatt — british art fabricator who created over 200 forged paintings before arrest in 1999
stanley moldaver — fabricator who falsified scientific data in nanotechnology research at university of waterloo, retracted 2013