Coup vs False - What's the difference?
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A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act; a triumph.
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* 2004 , Charles R. Geisst, Wall Street: A History ,
* 2005 , Laryce Henderson Rybka, Legacy of the Lamp ,
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(US, historical, of Native Americans) A blow against an enemy delivered in a way that shows bravery.
* 2007 , James Mooney, George Bird Grinnell, Edmund Nequatewa, Native American Ways: Four Paths to Enlightenment ,
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* 1985 , Christopher S. Clapham, Third World Politics: An Introduction ,
* 2003 , April A. Gordon, Nigeria's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook ,
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, title= (by extension) A takeover of one group by another.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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(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 coup
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.coup
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Noun
(en noun)page 399,
- The conference was a major coup for Robarts, who received congratulations for his 'expert handling' of the 'risky venture.'
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- While the price was considered a coup for Morgan, enhancing his reputation on Wall Street, Carnegie had a different explanation for his selling price.
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- "It was quite a coup for Pullen Park to get it. It had been in storage for awhile, and several parks in other places wanted to purchase it."
Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
- Yet the capture of Di María, who was the man of the match when Real won a 10th Champions League in May, represents something a coup for United considering the club are not in Europe’s premier club competition and need to strengthen their squad after the team have let five points slip from the first two matches.
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- Thus, for a horseman to ride over and knock down an enemy, who was on foot, was regarded among the Blackfeet as a coup , for the horseman might be shot at close quarters, or might receive a lance thrust.
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- Military coups and the military regimes which follow from them are so much a feature of third world politics that their presence or absence in any given region might almost be taken as a rough and ready touchstone of third worldliness.
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- It was the military's discontent with what was happening in the country and in the military that led to the first military coup in January 1966. The First Republic was brought to an ignoble end and replaced with a military government.
The west has little influence in Egypt, passage=The coup was well-planned. Fuel was artificially held back so as to create shortages and dissatisfaction with Brotherhood rule. The old state-controlled unions mounted public sector strikes that further sabotaged the economy and annoyed people. Police-controlled thugs who had been used against the Tahrir Square demonstrations in 2011 came back into action.}}
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*Derived terms
* count coup (qualifier) * coup stick (qualifier)See also
* (acknowledgement of a successful hit) English terms with homophones ----false
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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.}}