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Fake 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. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Reality, in everyday usage, means the state of things as they actually exist. ...

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 gun: can be used to threaten, 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: A teddy bear A toy is an object used in play. ... This article or section includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Forgery is the process of making or adapting objects or documents (see false document), with the intention to deceive. ... For other uses, see Counterfeit (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A meat analogue, also called meat substitute, mock meat or veat, approximates the aesthetic qualities (primarily texture, flavor and appearance) and/or chemical characteristics of certain types of meat. ... A dogs fur usually consists of longer, stiffer, guard hairs—which can be straight, wiry, or wavy, and of various lengths, hiding a soft, short-haired undercoat. ... Under the name of artificial leather, (not to be confused with pleather) or of American leather cloth, large quantities of a material having, more or less, a leather-like surface were once used, principally for upholstery purposes, such as the covering of chairs, lining the tops of writing desks and... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A threat is a declaration of intention to inflict punishment or harm on another. ...

• 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). Smaug in his lair: an illustration for the fantasy The Hobbit Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... Cap gun This is a nice display of Nichols Industries toy cap guns with a good collection of some of the rarest models. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A meat analogue, also called meat substitute, mock meat or veat, approximates the aesthetic qualities (primarily texture, flavor and appearance) and/or chemical characteristics of certain types of meat. ... A dogs fur usually consists of longer, stiffer, guard hairs—which can be straight, wiry, or wavy, and of various lengths, hiding a soft, short-haired undercoat. ... To license or grant license is to give permission. ...

See also

• hoax
• replica
• fiction
• fantasy
• virtual reality
• dream
• novel
• film
• hallucination
• delusion
• illusion
• mimic
• fake object - with "object" in the sense of object-oriented programming, used in computer software development and testing

Killer ants are on there way to your home A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. ... Look up replica in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Smaug in his lair: an illustration for the fantasy The Hobbit Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... Virtual reality (VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment, be it a real or imagined one. ... “Dreams” redirects here. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... A hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus. ... A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception. ... An illusion is a distortion of a sensory perception, revealing how the brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation. ... A mimic is any species that has evolved to appear similar to another successful species in order to dupe predators into avoiding the mimic, or dupe prey into approaching the mimic. ... Mock objects are simulated objects that mimic the behavior of real objects in controlled ways. ...