Gorge vs False - What's the difference?
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A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
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The throat or gullet.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
* Spenser
A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.
(architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
(nautical) The groove of a pulley.
To eat greedily and in large quantities.
To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
* Johnson
To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
* Dryden
* Addison
(UK, slang) Gorgeous.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(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 verb gorge
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.gorge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), fromNoun
(en noun)- Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
- Now, how abhorred! my gorge rises at it.
- And all the way, most like a brutish beast, / He spewed up his gorge , that all did him detest.
- an ice gorge in a river
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Verb
(gorg)- They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.
- The fish has gorged the hook.
- Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.
- The giant, gorged with flesh, and wine, and blood, / Lay stretch'd at length and snoring in his den
Derived terms
* disgorge * engorgeEtymology 2
Shortened from gorgeous .Adjective
(head)- Oh, look at him: isn't he gorge ?
Anagrams
* English intransitive verbs ----false
English
Adjective
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