Faking may refer to:
Music
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Miming in instrumental performance
Miming in instrumental performance or finger-synching is the act of musicians pretending to play their instruments in a live show, audiovisual recording or broadcast. Miming in instrument playing is the musical instrument equivalent of lip-syncing ...
(pretending to play an instrument)
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Faking (Western classical music) (pretending to play a difficult section of orchestral music)
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Lip-synching
Lip sync or lip synch (pronounced , like the word ''sink'', despite the spelling of the participial forms ''synced'' and ''syncing''), short for lip synchronization, is a technical term for matching a speaking or singing person's lip movements ...
(pretending to sing in a concert)
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Backing track
A backing track is an audio recording on audiotape, CD or a digital recording medium or a MIDI recording of synthesized instruments, sometimes of purely rhythmic accompaniment, often of a rhythm section or other accompaniment parts that live m ...
(using pre-recorded music in a live show)
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Faking (jazz) (providing improvised accompaniment in jazz)
Other contexts
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Fake news
Fake news or information disorder is false or misleading information (misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, and hoaxes) claiming the aesthetics and legitimacy of news. Fake news often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person ...
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Fake orgasm
A fake orgasm occurs when a person pretends to have an orgasm without actually experiencing one. It usually involves simulating or acting out behaviors typically associated with orgasm, such as body movements, vocal sounds, and sequences of intensi ...
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Poseur
A poseur is someone who poses for effect, or behaves affectedly, who affects a particular attitude, character or manner to impress others, or who pretends to belong to a particular group. (a person pretending to be part of a subculture)
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Charlatan
A charlatan (also called a swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or a similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, power, fame, or other advantages through pretense or deception. One example of a charlatan appears in t ...
(a person pretending to be a member of a certain profession)
See also
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Fake (disambiguation)
Fake or fakes may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film and television
* ''The Fake'' (1927 film), a silent British drama film
* ''The Fake'' (1953 film), a British film
* ''Fake'' (2003 film), a Thai movie
* ''Fake'', a 2010 film featuring F ...
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Fakir
Fakir, faqeer, or faqīr (; (noun of faqr)), derived from ''faqr'' (, 'poverty'), is an Islamic term traditionally used for Sufi Muslim ascetics who renounce their worldly possessions and dedicate their lives to the worship of God. They do ...
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