Plop vs False - What's the difference?
plop | false |
A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface.
(British) slang for excrement, derived from the "plop" sound made when the former hits water in a toilet.
To make the sound of liquid hitting a hard surface.
To land heavily or loosely.
:: There was a world inside that tall grass. You could plop yourself down in the middle of it with the scraggly stems against the back of your neck and the endless grasses rising up and jackknifing against the bigbluesky, and the ranch and all of its players would fade into a distant dream.
(British) To excrete, derived from the "plop" sound made when excrement hits water in a toilet.
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 plop
is (software).As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.plop
English
Noun
(en noun)- He heard the plops of rain on the roof.
Verb
(plopp)- He plopped down on the sofa to watch TV.
- 2009 , Reif Larson, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet , Pinguin Books, p. 37:
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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.}}