Fabrication vs. Machining — What's the Difference?

To make; create.

Machining is a process in which a material (often metal) is cut into a desired final shape and size by a controlled material-removal process. The processes that have this common theme, controlled material removal, are today collectively known as subtractive manufacturing, in distinction from processes of controlled material addition, which are known as additive manufacturing.

To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts

A device consisting of fixed and moving parts that redirects mechanical energy to accomplish a particular task or set of tasks.

To concoct in order to deceive

See simple machine.

(uncountable) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture

See compound machine.

(countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood

A system or device for doing work, as an automobile or jackhammer, together with its power source and auxiliary equipment.

(cooking) The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery.

A system or device, such as a computer, that performs or assists in the performance of a human task

The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.

An intricate natural system or organism, such as the human body.

That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication.

A person who acts in a rigid, mechanical, or unconscious manner.

A deliberately false or improbable account

An organized group of people whose members are or appear to be under the control of one or more leaders

Writing in a fictional form

A device used to produce a stage effect, especially a mechanical means of lowering an actor onto the stage.

The act of making something (a product) from raw materials;

A literary device used to produce an effect, especially the introduction of a supernatural being to resolve a plot.

The act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)

An answering machine

The deliberate act of deviating from the truth

Of, relating to, or felt to resemble a machine

To cut, shape, or finish by machine.

To be cut, shaped, or finished by machine

Present participle of machine

The act or process of machining, of manufacturing or finishing by machine.

Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine.