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# sham

«sham» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **something fake or pretended, made to look real** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (shams); adjective (sham); verb (sham, shams, shammed, shamming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sham is something fake or pretended, made to look real. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sham/#m1)

2) As an adjective, sham means not real, copied or false: a sham fight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sham/#m2)

3) To sham is to pretend, to act as if something is true when it is not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sham/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a pretend prince or fight, made to look real; in tales, toys playing at battles and visits

### examples

- The prince was a sham, only a tailor in fine clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sham/#x1)
- The toy soldiers had a sham fight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sham/#x2)
- He shammed sleep so he would not have to help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sham/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sham» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sham/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.