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Fool vs Bool - What's the difference?

fool | bool |

As nouns the difference between fool and bool

is that fool is a person with poor judgment or little intelligence while bool is a Boolean variable, one whose value is either true or false.

As a verb fool

is to trick; to make a fool of someone.

fool

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
    • You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
    The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.
  • * Franklin
    • Experience keeps a dear school, but fools' will learn in no ' other .
  • (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
  • (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
  • * Milton
    • Can they think me their fool or jester?
  • * 1975 , , "Fool for the City" (song), Fool for the City (album):
    • I'm a fool for the city.
  • (cooking) A type of dessert made of d fruit and custard or cream.
    • an apricot fool'''; a gooseberry '''fool
  • A particular card in a tarot deck.

    • Synonyms

    * (person with poor judgment) See also * (person who entertained a sovereign) jester, joker * (person who talks a lot of nonsense) gobshite

    Verb

  • To trick; to make a fool of someone.
  • To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
  • * Dryden
    • Is this a time for fooling ?

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * befool * fool about * fool around * foolhardy * foolish * foolishness * foolometer * fool's errand * fool's gold * fool's paradise * foolproof * more fool you * play the fool * suffer fools gladly * there's no fool like an old fool

    References

    1000 English basic words ----

    bool

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, programming) A Boolean variable, one whose value is either true or false.
  • * 2000 , Mark A DeLoura, Game programming gems
    • The base class BitArray acts just like a normal C++ array of bools , although you are of course free to interpret the bits as integers...
  • * 2000 , Herb Sutter, Exceptional C++
    • With an automatic conversion, bools will interfere with overload resolution...
  • * 2007 , Joseph C Rattz, Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008
    • Listing 7-11 shows an example where the initial data type is string, but I will obtain its value as a bool .

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