Loophole vs False - What's the difference?
loophole | false |
A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.
* 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist :
* 2002, Two Weeks Notice (movie):
A slit in a castle wall. Later: any similar window for shooting a weapon or letting in light.
* 1719 , Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe :
* 1809 , Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee :
* 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , page 25:
(military) To prepare a building for defense by preparing slits or holes through which to fire on attackers
* {{quote-book, year=1896, author=Arthur Conan Doyle, title=The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The lower windows were barricaded, and the whole building loopholed for musketry fire. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=A. E. W. Mason, title=The Broken Road, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The doors were barricaded, the shutters closed upon the windows and loopholed , and provisions were brought in from the outhouses. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=W. H. L. Watson, title=Adventures of a Despatch Rider, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The Germans were loopholing it for defence. }}
English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
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 noun loophole
is a method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.As a verb loophole
is (military) to prepare a building for defense by preparing slits or holes through which to fire on attackers.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.loophole
English
Noun
(en noun)- I left him no loophole of escape, and laid bare the whole villainy which by these lights became plain as day.
- You have a contract that says you will work until Island Towers is finalized, which I interpret as completion of construction, or I can stop you working elsewhere. And there's no loopholes , because you drafted it and you're the best.
- ... and having a fair loophole , as it were, from a broken hole in the tree, he took a sure aim, without being seen, waiting till they were within about thirty yards of the tree, so that he could not miss.
- There was a loophole in this wall, to let the light in, just at the height of a person's head, who was sitting near the chimney.
- The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loophole s of a fortress.
Verb
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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.}}