Cowboy vs False - What's the difference?
cowboy | false |
A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
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, title=, chapter=1
, passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
A man who identifies with cowboy culture, including wearing a cowboy hat and being a fan of country and western music.
(label) A person who engages in reckless behavior, especially for the purpose of showing off.
A dishonest and/or incompetent independent tradesman.
A playing card of king rank.
To work as a cowboy, herding cattle.
* 1994 , Sherry Robinson, El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains: a hiking guide and history
* 1995 , American Cowboy (volume 2, number 4, Nov-Dec 1995, page 26)
* 2003 , C. J. Hadley, Trappings of the Great Basin Buckaroo
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, 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 cowboy
is cowboy.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.cowboy
English
Noun
(en noun)Coordinate terms
* cowgirlHypernyms
* cowhand * cowperson * cowpokeSee also
* cattleman * buckarooVerb
(en verb)- Besides cowboying he worked at a small sawmill that cut logs into "four slabs and a tie" and sold ties to the railroad.
- Derwood Bailey cowboyed for 50 cents a day, a noon meal, and a gallon of oats for his horse.
- I still had never ridden or cowboyed , and I wanted to learn something about it. I'd been making the damn saddles for years but didn't know how to use them.
References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 ----
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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.}}