Hinder vs False - What's the difference?
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To make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle.
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* 1599 , act ii, scene 2 (act i; First Folio ed.):
To keep back; to delay or impede; to prevent.
* 1591 , act ii, scene 7 (First Folio ed.):
* John Locke
(obsolete) To cause harm.
Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows.
* 1990 - C. W. H. Havard (ed.), Black's Medical Dictionary , 36th edition, p 673
(hind)
(slang, euphemistic) The buttocks.
* 1997 , Richard Laliberte and Stephen C. George, The Men's Health Guide to Peak Conditioning [http://books.google.com/books?id=2MOrDKokat8C], ISBN 0875963234, page 195:
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 adjectives the difference between hinder and false
is that hinder is of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a verb hinder
is to make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle.As a noun hinder
is (slang|euphemistic) the buttocks.hinder
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Alternative forms
* hindre (archaic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hindrian, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- A drought hinders the growth of plants.
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- Since God ?o graciou?ly hath brought to light
This dangerous Trea?on, lurking in our way,
To hinder our beginnings.
- Then let me goe, and hinder not my cour?e
- What hinders younger brothers, being fathers of families, from having the same right?
Quotations
* (English Citations of "hinder")Synonyms
* (to delay or impede movement) bar, block, delay, hamper, impede, obstruct, restrain, stop * (to make a task difficult) delay, frustrate, hamper, impede, obstruct, prevent, thwart * See alsoAntonyms
* (to delay or impede movement) aid, assist, help * (to make a task difficult) assist, expedite, facilitate, helpDerived terms
* hinderment * hinderer * hindrance * unhinderedEtymology 2
(hind)Adjective
(-)- the hinder end of a wagon
- the hinder parts of a horse
- On a line dividing the front two-thirds from the hinder one-third, and set in the shape of a V, is a row of seven to twelve large flat-topped circumvallate papillae, ...
Usage notes
Most current uses of this adjective occur in anatomical contexts.Quotations
* (English Citations of "hinder")Synonyms
* (of or belonging to that part in the rear) back, hind, rear, posteriorAntonyms
* (of or belonging to that part in the rear) fore, frontNoun
(en noun)- Like martial arts, in-line skating is predicated on the notion that sooner or later you're going to end up on your hinder .
Quotations
* (English Citations of "hinder")false
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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.}}