Crump vs False - What's the difference?
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(UK, Scotland, dialect) Hard or crusty; dry baked
(obsolete) crooked; bent
* Jeremy Taylor
The sound of a muffled explosion.
* 1929 , Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
* 1999 , Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
* 2000 , Richard Woodman, The Darkening Sea
* 2008 , Paul Wood, BBC News.
To produce such a sound.
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, passage=“Mortars crumped , and from the high ground to the east and south came the shriek of 88-millimeter shells, green fireballs that whizzed through the dunes at half a mile a second, trailing golden plumes of dust.” }}
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 proper noun crump
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.crump
English
Etymology 1
Anglo-Saxon (crumb) stooping, bent down, akin to Old High German chrumb, (etyl) krumm, (etyl) krum, and English cramp.Adjective
(en adjective)- a crump loaf
- Crooked backs and crump shoulders.
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic.English onomatopoeiasNoun
(en noun)- [hymn] "To an inheritance incorruptible . . . Through faith unto salvation, Ready to be revealed at the last trump." For "trump" we always used to sing "crump." A crump was German five-point-nine shell, and "the last crump" would be the end of the War.
- Crump , crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.
- Above this grey skyline slowly lifting clouds of dirty smoke rose into the morning air as the salvoes of Japanese shells exploded with a delayed crump .
Taking cover on Sderot front line
- "Now you can see what life is like for us here," said Yakov Shoshani, raising his voice to make himself heard over the sound of a loud crump .
Verb
(en verb)citation
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.}}