Closet vs False - What's the difference?
closet | false |
(chiefly, US) A piece of furniture or a cabinet in which clothes or household supplies may be stored.
A small private chamber.
* Goldsmith
* Bible, Matthew vi. 6
A toilet; a water closet.
(figuratively) The imagined closet in idioms such as in the closet or skeleton in the closet, a place to keep things hidden.
Secret.
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To shut away for private discussion.
To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
* (rfdate) (Bancroft)
* (rfdate) (Froude)
To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
* (rfdate) (Cowper)
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 noun closet
is closet.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.closet
English
Noun
(wikipedia closet) (en noun)- (Dryden)
- a chair-lumbered closet , just twelve feet by nine
- When thou prayest, enter into thy closet .
- The'' 'closet''' can be a scary place for a gay teenager.
Synonyms
* (A piece of furniture) cupboard, wardrobe, press (British), locker, cabinetAdjective
(-)Derived terms
* closeted * closet oneself * come out of the closet * earth closet * in the closet * skeleton in the closet * water closetSee also
* come out * outVerb
(en verb)- The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
- He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.
- He had been closeted with De Quadra.
- Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge.
Anagrams
* ----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.}}