fabricate vs manufacture

fabricate

verb
  • To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce. 

  • To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely. 

  • To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build. 

  • To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl. 

manufacture

verb
  • To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery. 

  • To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point. 

  • To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use. 

noun
  • The process of such production; generation, creation. 

  • The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale. 

  • A watch manufacturer that makes its own parts, rather than assembling watches from parts obtained from other firms. 

  • Anything made, formed or produced; product. 

How often have the words fabricate and manufacture occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )