Cobbler vs False - What's the difference?
cobbler | false |
A person who repairs shoes.
A person who lays cobbles
A kind of pie, usually filled with fruit, that lacks a base crust.
(slang, usually plural) A police officer.
An alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with sugar and lemon juice.
* 1858 June, , Volume 2, Number 1,
(obsolete) A clumsy workman.
* 1599 , , I. i. 11:
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 cobbler
is a person who repairs shoes.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.cobbler
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Addison)
- Look out, it's the cobblers ! .
- In the creed of Asirvadam the Brahmin, the drinker of strong drink is a Pariah, and the eater of cow's flesh is damned already. If, then, he can tell a cocktail from a cobbler , and scientifically discriminate between a julep and a gin-sling, it must be because the Vedas are unclasped to him; for in the Vedas all things are taught.
- Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I / am but, as you would say, a cobbler .
Synonyms
* (person who repairs shoes) shoemender, shoe repairer, shoemaker (person fabricating shoes) * (police officer) seeAnagrams
*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.}}