Fake means not real. Reality, in everyday usage means "the state of things as they actually exist" 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 gun: can be used to threaten, e. This article is about playthings For other uses of the term see Toy (disambiguation. A play, or stageplay, is a form of Literature written by a Playwright, almost always consisting of Dialogue between Fictional characters Deception (also called beguilement or subterfuge) is the act of convincing another to believe Information that is not true or not the whole truth as in Forgery is the process of making adapting or imitating objects statistics or documents (see False document) with the intent to deceive. A counterfeit is an imitation that is made usually with the intent to deceptively represent its content or origins A decoy is usually a person device or event meant as a distraction to conceal what an individual or a group might be looking for A meat analogue, also called a meat substitute, mock meat, faux meat, imitation meat, or soymeat, approximates the aesthetic qualities Fur is a body hair of any non-human Mammal, also known as the Pelage. Artificial Leather is a fabric of finish intended to substitute for leather in fields such as Upholstery, Clothing and Fabrics, and other A gun is a particular Weapon that propels Projectiles The projectile is generally fired through a hollow tube known as the gun's barrel. Coercion (co-er-shion is the practice of compelling a person or manipulating them to behave in an involuntary way (whether through action or inaction by use of threats 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. Robbery is the Crime of seizing Property through Violence or Intimidation. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting 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. Toy weapons are Toys that mimic real Weapons but are designed to be fun for children to play with and less dangerous A theatrical property, commonly referred to as a prop, is any object held or used on stage by an Actor for use in furthering the plot or story line of a Theatrical A meat analogue, also called a meat substitute, mock meat, faux meat, imitation meat, or soymeat, approximates the aesthetic qualities Fur is a body hair of any non-human Mammal, also known as the Pelage. The verb license or grant license means to give permission The noun license is the document demonstrating that permission

See also

• dummy
• 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

A hoax is a deliberate attempt to Dupe, Deceive or trick an audience into believing or accepting that something is real when in fact it is not or that A replica is a copy that is relatively indistinguishable from the original Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/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 are the images sounds thoughts and feelings experienced while Sleeping, particularly strongly associated with Rapid eye movement sleep. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story A hallucination, in the broadest sense is a Perception in the absence of a 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 the senses revealing how the Brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation Biological mimicry occurs when a group of organisms the mimics, have In Object-oriented programming, mock objects are simulated objects that mimic the behavior of real objects in controlled ways

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