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Damper vs False - What's the difference?

damper | false |

As adjectives the difference between damper and false

is that damper is (damp) while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.

As a noun damper

is something that damps or checks:.

damper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that damps or checks:
  • # A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
  • # A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
  • # Something that kills the mood.
  • #* (rfdate) W. Black
  • Nor did Sabrina?s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
  • # A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
  • (chiefly, Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
  • * 1827, , Two Years in New South Wales'', ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, ''A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms , 1978, ISBN 0-424-00034-2,
  • The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers , and cook these in the ashes.
  • * (Rudyard Kipling), His Gift
  • Adjective

    (head)
  • (damp)
  • Anagrams

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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 .

    Anagrams

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