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false | hoke |

As nouns the difference between false and hoke

is that false is one of two options on a true-or-false test while hoke is alternative form of lang=en.

As an adjective false

is untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.

As an adverb false

is not truly; not honestly; falsely.

As a verb hoke is

to ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.

false

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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  • 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

    Related terms

    * falsifiable

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You play me false .

    Anagrams

    * * 1000 English basic words ----

    hoke

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl).

    Noun

  • (obsolete)
  • * 1535 , , unnumbered page,
    • Thou shalt make hokes' of golde also, and two wreth? cheynes of pure golde, and shalt fasten them vnto the ' hokes .
    Related terms
    * hoked (adjective)

    Etymology 2

    From (hokum).

    Verb

    (hok)
  • (slang) To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.
  • * 1993 , Reed Whittemore, Jack London'', ''Six Literary Lives , page 70,
    • He even checked the Thomas Cooke & Son travel people about how to get'' to the East End (here he was hoking''' a bit), learning that they were ready to advise him on how to journey to any point in the world ''except'' the East End. Then he hailed a cab and found (here he was ' hoking further) that the cab driver didn't know how to get there either.
  • * 1999 , David Lewis, 15: Humean Supervenience Debugged'', ''Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology , Volume 2, page 228,
    • If we define partitions of alternative cases by means of ingeniously hoked -up properties, we can get the principle to say almost anything we like.
  • * 2008 , Terry Penner, 12: The Forms and the Sciences in Socrates and Plato'', Hugh H. Benson (editor), ''A Companion to Plato , page 179,
    • If it be asked how we come to talk about them, the answer is: for purposes of rejecting these misbegotten creatures of sophistic imaginations, “hoked up” with such things as interest'', ''strength'', and the like, which ''do exist, although only outside of these combinations.
    Derived terms
    * hokey

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something contrived or artificial.

    • Etymology 3

    Compare (etyl) howk.

    Verb

    (hok)
  • (Ireland) To scrounge, to grub.
  • * 1987 , , 2010, unnumbered page,
    • When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt
  • * 2000 , , The Little Hammer , unnumbered page,
    • We met when I was hoking about in the rocks – just the sort of thing a virtual only child does to put in the day.