Dodge vs False - What's the difference?
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To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
(figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
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, chapter=2 (archaic) To go hither and thither.
(photography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare burn).
To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
* Coleridge
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 a proper noun dodge
is derived from a (etyl) diminutive of roger (typically found in the united states).As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.dodge
English
Verb
(dodg)- He dodged traffic crossing the street.
- The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
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- A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.
Synonyms
* (to avoid) duck, evade, fudge, skirtDerived terms
* dodge a bullet * dodger * dodgyfalse
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.}}