Cage vs False - What's the difference?
cage | false |
an enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
the passenger compartment of a lift
(hockey, water polo) the goal.
(US derogatory slang) automobile
(figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
(athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
(obsolete) A place of confinement for malefactors.
* Lovelace
An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
(engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
(mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
(baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
To put into a cage.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= To keep in a cage.
To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
(figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, 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 a proper noun cage
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.cage
English
Noun
(en noun)- We keep a bird in a cage .
- The tigers are in a cage to protect the public.
- The most dangerous prisoners are locked away in a cage .
- (Shakespeare)
- Stone walls do not a prison make, / Nor iron bars a cage .
- the cage of a staircase
- (Gwilt)
Derived terms
* birdcage * cageling * cagey * roll cageVerb
(cag)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
Derived terms
* caged in * uncage * caging list * rattle someone's cagefalse
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.}}