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pho·ny

also pho·ney(fō′nē)adj.pho·ni·er, pho·ni·est
1. Not genuine or real; sham or counterfeit: a phony credit card; a phony beard.
2. Spurious, deceptive, or false: a phony excuse.
3. Fraudulent, deceitful, or dishonest: a phony expert in investing.
n.pl.pho·nies also pho·neys
2. Something that is not genuine; a fake.
[Alteration of fawney, gilt brass ring used by swindlers, from Irish Gaelic fáinne, ring, from Old Irish.]
pho′ni·ness n.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

phony

(ˈfəʊnɪ)
adj, n-nieror-niest, pl-nies
ˈphoninessn
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pho•ny

or pho•ney

(ˈfoʊ ni)
adj. -ni•er, -ni•est,adj.
2. false or deceiving: a phony excuse.
n.
4. something phony; a counterfeit or fake.
v.t.
6. to falsify (often fol. by up): to phony up a document.
[1895–1900; perhaps alter. and resp. of fawney (slang) finger ring (< Irish fáinne), taken to mean “false” in the phrase fawney rig a confidence game in which a brass ring is sold as a gold one]
pho′ni•ness,n.

-phony

a combining form used in the formation of abstract nouns corresponding to nouns ending in -phone: telephony.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
Noun1.phony - a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, pretender
beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
charmer, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker - someone with an assured and ingratiating manner
Tartufe, Tartuffe - a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere)
whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre - a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous
Adj.1.phony - fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
counterfeit, imitative - not genuine; imitating something superior; 'counterfeit emotion'; 'counterfeit money'; 'counterfeit works of art'; 'a counterfeit prince'
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

phony

also phoney
adjective1. Fraudulently or deceptively imitative:
bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, fraudulent, sham, spurious, suppositious, supposititious.
2. Not genuine or sincere:
affected, artificial, feigned, insincere, pretended.
3. Of or practicing hypocrisy:
hypocritical, Pecksniffian, pharisaic, pharisaical, sanctimonious, two-faced.
noun
1. A fraudulent imitation:
2. One who fakes:
charlatan, fake, faker, fraud, humbug, impostor, mountebank, pretender, quack.
3. A person who practices hypocrisy:
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phon(e)y

(ˈfəuni) adjective

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not genuine; fake; false. a phoney French accent. vals, nagemaak كاذِب، مُزّيَّف، مُصْطَنَع фалшив falso falešný falsch falsk; påtaget ψεύτικοςfalso, fingido võlts ساختگی؛ قلابی väärä fauxמזויף कृत्रिम lažan, krivotvoren hamis palsu óekta falso, finto にせの 허위의 apsimestinis, netikras neīsts; viltots dibuat-buat onecht, nepfalsk, uekte udawany, lipny تصنعي، ساختګي falso pretins ложный, поддельный falošný ponarejen lažni falsk, dum ซึ่งหลอกลวง sahte, yapmacık 假的 фальшивий; дутий نقلي، غير حقيقي giả mạo 假的
noun
a person who is not what he pretends to be. He's not a real doctor – he's a phoney. bedrieër إنْسان أو شَيء مُزَيَّف лицемер impostor šarlatán der/die Schwindler(in) svindler; fupmager απατεώναςfarsante, impostor ðarlatan آدم متظاهر huijari charlatanרמאי नकली folirant szélhámos gadungan loddari impostore インチキ 사기꾼 apsimetėlis krāpnieks; viltnieks tipu bedriegerbløffmaker, svindleroszust ښكارونكى سړى impostor şarlatan обманщик; шарлатан šarlatán blefer folirant bluff นักต้มตุ๋น sahtekâr 假冒者,騙子 шахрай, шарлатан مکوٹھے والا kẻ giả mạo 假冒者,骗子
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These advanced steps are primarily for system administrators and others who are familiar with the command line. You don't need a bootable installer to upgrade macOS or reinstall macOS, but it can be useful when you want to install on multiple computers without downloading the installer each time.

What you need to create a bootable installer

  • A USB flash drive or other secondary volume formatted as Mac OS Extended, with at least 14GB of available storage
  • A downloaded installer for macOS Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave, High Sierra, or El Capitan

Download macOS

  • Download: macOS Big Sur, macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave, or macOS High Sierra
    These download to your Applications folder as an app named Install macOS [version name]. If the installer opens after downloading, quit it without continuing installation. To get the correct installer, download from a Mac that is using macOS Sierra 10.12.5 or later, or El Capitan 10.11.6. Enterprise administrators, please download from Apple, not a locally hosted software-update server.
  • Download: OS X El Capitan
    This downloads as a disk image named InstallMacOSX.dmg. On a Mac that is compatible with El Capitan, open the disk image and run the installer within, named InstallMacOSX.pkg. It installs an app named Install OS X El Capitan into your Applications folder. You will create the bootable installer from this app, not from the disk image or .pkg installer.

Use the 'createinstallmedia' command in Terminal

  1. Connect the USB flash drive or other volume that you're using for the bootable installer.
  2. Open Terminal, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
  3. Type or paste one of the following commands in Terminal. These assume that the installer is in your Applications folder, and MyVolume is the name of the USB flash drive or other volume you're using. If it has a different name, replace MyVolume in these commands with the name of your volume.

Big Sur:*

Catalina:*

Mojave:*

High Sierra:*

El Capitan:

* If your Mac is using macOS Sierra or earlier, include the --applicationpath argument and installer path, similar to the way this is done in the command for El Capitan.


After typing the command:

  1. Press Return to enter the command.
  2. When prompted, type your administrator password and press Return again. Terminal doesn't show any characters as you type your password.
  3. When prompted, type Y to confirm that you want to erase the volume, then press Return. Terminal shows the progress as the volume is erased.
  4. After the volume is erased, you may see an alert that Terminal would like to access files on a removable volume. Click OK to allow the copy to proceed.
  5. When Terminal says that it's done, the volume will have the same name as the installer you downloaded, such as Install macOS Big Sur. You can now quit Terminal and eject the volume.

Use the bootable installer

Determine whether you're using a Mac with Apple silicon, then follow the appropriate steps:

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  1. Plug the bootable installer into a Mac that is connected to the internet and compatible with the version of macOS you're installing.
  2. Turn on your Mac and continue to hold the power button until you see the startup options window, which shows your bootable volumes.
  3. Select the volume containing the bootable installer, then click Continue.
  4. When the macOS installer opens, follow the onscreen instructions.

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  1. Plug the bootable installer into a Mac that is connected to the internet and compatible with the version of macOS you're installing.
  2. Press and hold the Option (Alt) ⌥ key immediately after turning on or restarting your Mac.
  3. Release the Option key when you see a dark screen showing your bootable volumes.
  4. Select the volume containing the bootable installer. Then click the up arrow or press Return.
    If you can't start up from the bootable installer, make sure that the External Boot setting in Startup Security Utility is set to allow booting from external media.
  5. Choose your language, if prompted.
  6. Select Install macOS (or Install OS X) from the Utilities window, then click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions.

Learn more

A bootable installer doesn't download macOS from the internet, but it does require an internet connection to get firmware and other information specific to the Mac model.

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For information about the createinstallmedia command and the arguments you can use with it, make sure that the macOS installer is in your Applications folder, then enter the appropriate path in Terminal: