means not Real . For example, a document or other object created to look like a real object that exists or could exist, or a performance where an event is played, or untrue statements. Or a person who tries to be someone they're not by dressing and acting differently from their true selves.
Applications include:
- fun, art, use as a Toy
- ---for example, a film or play shows fake events, where actors show fake emotions, and where fake objects are used
- an insult used to describe a person who lies, pretends to be something they are not, does not have an opinion of their own or pretends to like things he or she does not
- Deception
- ---a Forgery (a false document or picture)
- ---a Counterfeit (of an object)
- ---a Decoy
- the same purpose (partly or fully) as the real thing
- --- Meat Analogue
- ---imitation Fur
- --- Artificial Leather
- ---fake en, e.g. in a Robbery ; for this reason fake guns are often prohibited, unless clearly distinguishable from a real gun
Reasons for using a fake object instead of the real thing include:
- the real thing does not exist, including:
- ---a document trying to prove something which is not true
- ---a Fantasy object
- a fake version of an object may be:
- ---more easily available
- ---less expensive
- ---less dangerous (e.g. a Toy Weapon , or a weapon Prop )
- ---less heavy
- ---not requiring to kill an animal ( Meat Analogue , imitation Fur )
- ---legal while the real thing is illegal
- ---not requiring a License
- decoys of a military target either require the extra effort to distinguish them from the real thing or make destruction less efficient by the need to destruct the decoys too; decoys are less expensive than the real thing; especially for missiles it is also important that they are less heavy; also they may be inflatable and therefore before deployment have a small volume; in the case of arms limitation agreements an advantage is also that they typically are not limited.
There can be several levels of being real or fake. For example, in a work of fiction a character can have a nightmare or the story may involve counterfeit money (two levels), or a character may dream about counterfeiting (three levels).
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