fabrication vs shaping

fabrication and shaping both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fabrication	Yes	No	No	No
shaping	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, shaping is a hyponym of fabrication; that is, shaping is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fabrication:

Other hyponyms of fabrication include formation, newspeak, prefabrication.

fabrication (noun)	shaping (noun)
the act of making something (a product) from raw materials	the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)	any process serving to define the shape of something
writing in a fictional form
the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
a deliberately false or improbable account

fabrication (adjective)	shaping (adjective)
	forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning