ficticio
dummy ; illusory ; fictitious ; fictionalised [fictionalized, -USA] ; fictional ; fancied ; make-believe ; fictious ; delusional.
DOBIS/LIBIS, therefore, assigns them the dummy master number zero.
We can permit ourselves to be hypnotized by the gadgetry for access and by illusory cost reductions, or we can use the computer effectively to transform the catalog into a truly responsive instrument.
Certainly there are very serious novels which, by means of a fictitious story, have a great deal to say about human relationships and social structures.
This is a humourous and cautionary fictionalised account of a disastrous author visit to a public library to do a reading for children.
No one, in this purely hypothetical example, has thought that the reader might be happy with a factual account of an Atlantic convoy as well as, or in place of, a purely fictional account.
It is suggested that differences between children's spoken words and the words in school texts may be more fancied than factual.
This book illustrates and describes the features of a monster and reinsures the children not to be frightened of make-believe monsters.
Many of them are fictious, but there are also real artists and scientists, who play parts in the book, in one way or another.
Despite what false patriots tell us, we now have a delusional democracy, not one that citizens can trust to serve their interests.
amenaza ficticia
bogeyman [bogeymen]
bogey [bogie]
The article is entitled 'Micrographics and eyestrain: more bogeyman than real threat'.
Fish is particularly scathing about reactionaries in the academic world who resort to a version of scaremongering about 'political correctness,' deconstruction, and other bogies.
colección ficticia
made-up collection
The following are examples of made-up collections: a collection of pamphlets housed in a box; a set of memorabilia in various formats kept together as a collection; all the manuscripts of an individual author.
ejemplar ficticio
made-up copy
Although it is less common than it used to be, booksellers and collectors sometimes complete an imperfect copy of a valuable book by supplying missing leaves from another, yet more imperfect, copy; thus obtaining a 'made-up' copy.
elemento de búsqueda ficticio [Datos que se utilizan en una búsqueda que se saben no existen en el sistema y que causan que éste actúe de una manera particular]
rogue string
An escape route from the loop would be provided using a 'rogue' string, ie one that would not be encountered in practice.
entrada ficticia [Entrada que se sabe no existe en un índice pero se utiliza para que el sistema de búsqueda se coloque después de la entrada que le precede númerica o alfabéticamente]
rogue entry
As can be seen, the access vector needs no additional 'rogue' entry, 'ZZZ' in this case, to point one beyond the last entry in the record number list.
pasado ficticio
imaginary past
Besotted with an imaginary past that never was, the Department of National Heritage has proved unable to provide the national lead that was expected.
resultar ser ficticio
prove + illusory
The hoped for panaceas are either not materialising or proving illusory = Las panaceas tan esperadas no se materializaron o resultaron ser ficticias.
ser ficticio
be fiction
Sometimes librarians have to explain to enquirers who will almost certainly not believe them that ostriches do not put their heads in the sand, that in Britain at least, doctors do not take the Hippocratic oath, and that both the yeti and Sweeney Todd's baber's shop are fiction.
