Deck vs False - What's the difference?
deck | false |
Any flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
(lb) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
A pack or set of playing cards.
A set of slides for a presentation.
*2011 , David Kroenke, Donald Nilson, Office 365 in Business
*:Navigate to the location where your PowerPoint deck is stored and select it.
(lb) A heap or store.
*(Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)
*:Whohath such trinkets / Ready in the deck .
(uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
(slang) In a fight or brawl, to knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance
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* Bible, Job xl. 10
* Shakespeare
To decorate (something).
* Dryden
To cover; to overspread.
* Milton
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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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 adjectives the difference between deck and false
is that deck is thick while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.deck
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* afterdeck * below decks * flight deck * foredeck * forward deck * lower deck * poopdeck * quarterdeck * rear deck * stern deckVerb
(en verb)- Wow, did you see her deck that guy who pinched her?
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it. The false emphasis with which they try to deck their worthless thoughts blunts their susceptibilities.
- Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency.
- Deck my body in gay ornaments.
- The dew with spangles decked the ground.
- to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky
Usage notes
* See deck outfalse
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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.}}