Ding vs False - What's the difference?
ding | false |
(informal) Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
(colloquial) A rejection.
To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
To hit or strike.
To dash; to throw violently.
* Milton
To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
(colloquial) To fire or reject.
(colloquial) To deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty.
(golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
* Washington Irving
To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
* 1884 , Oswald Crawfurd, English comic dramatists :
(intransitive, colloquial, gaming) To level up
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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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 an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.ding
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dingen, .Noun
(en noun)- I just got my first ding letter.
Verb
- The elevator dinged and the doors opened.
- to ding the book a coit's distance from him
- If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board. — BBC surfing Wales [http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/surfing/sites/features/pages/dings.shtml]
- His top school dinged him last week.
- My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.
Derived terms
* ding upEtymology 2
Onomatopoeic.English onomatopoeias Compare ,Verb
(en verb)- The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.
- If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself; not keep dinging' it, ' dinging it into one so.
See also
* ding dongEtymology 3
Romanized from (etyl)false
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.}}