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Closet vs False - What's the difference?

closet | false |

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)
  • (chiefly, US) A piece of furniture or a cabinet in which clothes or household supplies may be stored.
  • (Dryden)
  • A small private chamber.
  • * Goldsmith
  • a chair-lumbered closet , just twelve feet by nine
  • * Bible, Matthew vi. 6
  • When thou prayest, enter into thy closet .
  • 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.
  • The'' 'closet''' can be a scary place for a gay teenager.

    Synonyms

    * (A piece of furniture) cupboard, wardrobe, press (British), locker, cabinet

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Secret.
  • *
  • Derived terms

    * closeted * closet oneself * come out of the closet * earth closet * in the closet * skeleton in the closet * water closet

    See also

    * come out * out

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shut away for private discussion.
  • The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
  • To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
  • * (rfdate) (Bancroft)
  • He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.
  • * (rfdate) (Froude)
  • He had been closeted with De Quadra.
  • To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
  • * (rfdate) (Cowper)
  • Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge.

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    false

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
  • , title= 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.}}
  • Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
  • Spurious, artificial.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :
  • Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
  • Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
  • :
  • *(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.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of two options on a true-or-false test.
  • Synonyms

    * * See also

    Antonyms

    * (untrue) real, true

    Derived terms

    * false attack * false dawn * false friend * falsehood * falseness * falsify * falsity

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You play me false .

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