Beetle vs False - What's the difference?
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Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
(uncountable) A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
* 1944 , Queen's Nurses' Magazine (volumes 33-35, page 12)
To move away quickly, to scurry away.
* {{quote-book
, year=1983
, author=
, title=(Gaudy Night)
, publisher=Mountaineers Books
* {{quote-book
, year=2003
, author=
, title=(Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)
, chapter=The Department of Mysteries
, isbn=9780439358064
, page=766
, passage=In the falling darkness Harry saw small collections of lights as they passed over more villages, then a winding road on which a single car was beetling its way home through the hills. …}}
* {{quote-book
, year=2005
, author=(James Doss)
, title=The Witch's Tongue
, isbn=9780312991081
, page=178
, passage=Her eyes still closed, his aunt smiled cruelly. “I know what you are dying to say, Bertie. Go ahead—take the cheap shot. I’ll squash you like the nasty little bug you are.” ¶ Thus chastened, the little man beetled away.}}
To loom over; to extend or jut.
* Shakespeare
* Wordsworth
* {{quote-magazine
, year=1858
, author=Dean of Pimlico
, title=A Story for the New Year
, date=January-March
, volume=56 (volume 20 of the second series)
, page=63
, magazine=Dublin University Magazine reprinted in Littell's Living Age
, publisher=Littell, Son & Company
* {{quote-book
, year=1941
, author=Chapman Miske
, title=The Thing in the Moonlight
, passage=Impelled by some obscure quest, I ascended a rift or cleft in this beetling precipice, noting as I did so the black mouths of many fearsome burrows extending from both walls into the depths of the stony plateau.}}
A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
To beat with a heavy mallet.
To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between beetle and false
is that beetle is protruding, jutting, overhanging (as in beetle brows ) while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun beetle
is any of numerous species of insect in the order coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest or beetle can be a type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.As a verb beetle
is to move away quickly, to scurry away or beetle can be to loom over; to extend or jut or beetle can be to beat with a heavy mallet.beetle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bitle, bityl, bytylle, from (etyl) bitula, bitela, .Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Guessing competitions were tackled with much enthusiasm, followed by a beetle drive, and judging by the laughter, this was popular with all.
Synonyms
* (insect) bugDerived terms
* beetle-browed * Christmas beetle * click beetle * Colorado beetle * deathwatch beetle * dung beetle * huhu beetle * lady beetle * oil beetle * rhinoceros beetle * rove beetle * stag beetle * water beetle * whirligig beetleSee also
* bug * firefly * ladybird * scarabVerb
- He beetled off on his vacation.
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Possibly after , from the fact that some beetles have bushy antennae.Verb
(beetl)- The heavy chimney beetled over the thatched roof.
- To the dreadful summit of the cliff / That beetles o'er his base into the sea.
- Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.
citation, passage=I was indeed gently affected, and shared his fears, remembering well the bulging walls of the old house, and the toppling mass of heavy chimney work which beetled over the roof, beneath which these poor doves had made their nest. }}
Etymology 3
(etyl) betel, from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
Verb
(beetl)- to beetle cotton goods
false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}