n 1: a deliberately false or improbable account [syn: fiction, fable]
2: writing in a fictional form [syn: fictionalization, fictionalisation]
3: the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
[syn: manufacture]
4: the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
[syn: assembly] [ant: dismantling]
5: the deliberate act of deviating from the truth [syn: lying, prevarication]