Gaping vs False - What's the difference?
gaping | false |
The act of one who gapes.
* 1820 , John Cooke, A Treatise on Nervous Diseases: Vol. I on Apoplexy
Something gaping; something .
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 gaping and false
is that gaping is wide open while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a verb gaping
is .As a noun gaping
is the act of one who gapes.gaping
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(en noun)- M. Le Gallois considers these gapings , which continue for some time after decapitation, as the vain efforts of the head for respiration.
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*false
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(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.}}