Gargoyle vs False - What's the difference?
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A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.
* 1906 , , The Trampling of the Lilies? , page 110
Any decorative carved grotesque figure on a building.
A fictional winged monster.
* 2005 , Mel Odom, The Secret Explodes? , page 200
(slang, pejorative) An ugly woman.
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 noun gargoyle
is a carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.gargoyle
English
(wikipedia gargoyle)Noun
(en noun)- From between set teeth came now a flow of oaths and imprecations as steady as the flow of water from the gargoyle overhead.
- Almost immediately one of the gargoyles' swept down from the sky and attacked him. The ' gargoyle' s momentum drove them both over the side.
Synonyms
* (any decorative carved grotesque figure) grotesque, hunky punk * (ugly woman) crone, hagDerived terms
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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.}}