Gouge vs False - What's the difference?
gouge | false |
A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.
A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
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A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
An incising tool that cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc.
(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
(slang) Imposition; cheat; fraud.
(slang) An impostor; a cheat.
To make a mark or hole by scooping.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
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To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.
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 verb gouge
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.gouge
English
Noun
(en noun)- The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
- The "steeple" was a little cupola, reared on the very centre of the roof, on four tall pillars of pine that were fluted with a gouge , and loaded with mouldings.
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- (Raymond)
Verb
(goug)- Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
- He tried to clinch and gouge , but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out.
- They have no competition, so they tend to gouge their customers.
Synonyms
* (make a mark or hole by scooping) engrave * (charge an unreasonable price) swindleDerived terms
* gouge out * price gouging * regougeReferences
* English transitive verbs ----false
English
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.}}