Fake vs. Obituary — What's the Difference?

Not genuine; imitation or counterfeit

An obituary (obit for short) is a news article that reports the recent death of a person, typically along with an account of the person's life and information about the upcoming funeral. In large cities and larger newspapers, obituaries are written only for people considered significant.

A thing that is not genuine; a forgery or sham

A published notice of a death, sometimes with a brief biography of the deceased.

Variant spelling of flake

A brief notice of a person’s death, as published in a newspaper.

Forge or counterfeit (something)

A biography of a recently deceased person, written by a journalist and published in a newspaper.

Variant spelling of flake

A register of deaths in a monastery.

Having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent.

Relating to the death of a person.

One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.

Of or pertaining to the death of a person or persons; as, an obituary notice; obituary poetry.

(Sports) A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.

That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person.

One loop or winding of a coiled rope or cable.

A notice of the death of a person, published in a newspaper or other periodical, accompanied by a biographical sketch which may be brief ro extended; as, the funeral director arranged placed an obituary in the local papaer.

To contrive and present as genuine; counterfeit

The section of a newspaper in which obituaries{2} are printed; as, I saw the notice of his death in the obituaries.

To simulate; feign

A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead.

(Music) To improvise (a passage).

A notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography

(Sports) To deceive (an opponent) with a fake. Often used with out.

To engage in feigning, simulation, or other deceptive activity.

(Sports) To perform a fake.

To coil (a rope or cable).

Not real; false, fraudulent

(of people) Insincere

Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

(sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.

(archaic) A trick; a swindle

(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

(transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.

(transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

(archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

(archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is

To improvise, in jazz.

(nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

A trick; a swindle.

To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.

To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

To make; to construct; to do.

To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.

Something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

A person who makes deceitful pretenses

(football) a deceptive move made by a football player

Make a copy of with the intent to deceive;

Fake or falsify;

Talk through one's hat;

Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article;