forgery

«forgery» in Mova's school dictionary: a copy of something such as a painting, a banknote, a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a forgery, forgeries; also uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) A forgery is a copy of something such as a painting, a banknote, a document or a signature, made to trick people into thinking it is real. tree →

2) (law) Forgery is the crime of making such false copies. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and news about art, money and crime; detectives find out that a painting is a forgery. In school, copying a parent's signature on a note is forgery and is dishonest. Phrases: «a clever forgery», «guilty of forgery», «the painting is a forgery».

examples

• The museum found out that the painting was a forgery. tree →
• Forging a signature is forgery, which is a crime. tree →
• Banknotes have special marks to stop forgery. tree →
• He was sent to prison for forgery. tree →
• The detective spotted the forgery because the ink was too new. tree →
• Signing your mum's name on a school note is forgery, even if it seems small. tree →

note

Plural «forgeries». Verb «forge» (also means to shape hot metal); person «forger». A «fake» is a looser everyday word. Not the same as «counterfeit», which is used especially for money and goods.

In the corpora

• Forgery means signing someone else's name, or faking a paper, to make people believe it is real.
• Forging a note turns one problem into two: the thing in the note and the forgery.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «forgery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.