Gotcha vs False - What's the difference?
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(colloquial) Got you; have you; as in capture or apprehend.
(colloquial) Understand; comprehend.
(colloquial) Got you covered, got your back; when you have an advantage or responsibility over someone.
(colloquial) Got you back; as in after causing some form of retaliation or revenge against someone.
(colloquial) Got you by surprise; Exclamation indicating a successful trick or prank.
(colloquial) Got you by surprise; as in engineering or computer programming; typically an unintended consequence or problem caused by a small variation in areas such as command syntax, function definition, results application.
(colloquial) A potential problem or source of trouble.
(colloquial) An instance of publicly tricking someone or exposing them to ridicule, especially by means of an elaborate deception.
(colloquial) An instance of accomplishing a tricky idea or overcoming a difficult obstacle.
English predicates
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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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 contraction gotcha
is (colloquial) got you; have you; as in capture or apprehend.As a noun gotcha
is (colloquial) a potential problem or source of trouble.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.gotcha
English
Alternative forms
* gotchyaEtymology 1
Written form of a of got you .Contraction
(en-cont)- I gotcha now, ya little twerp.
- Yeah, I gotcha . Good thinkin'!
- Gotcha! Go on in...
- Gotcha! And don't ever do that to me again.
- Gotcha! They never notice the whoopie cushion!
Derived terms
* gotcha keywordEtymology 2
Direct acquisition of gotcha , the contraction of got you .Noun
(en noun)- Review the work thoroughly and make sure there are no gotchas .
- They change the number at random intervals and if you miss a sign, bingo - gotcha ! http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_english/gotcha
- Now here's another few gotcha s that you can do to implement it.
Derived terms
* game of gotchaSee also
* gotta * letcha * letchyaReferences
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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.}}