Hoop vs False - What's the difference?
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A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
(mostly, in plural) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline.
* Alexander Pope
A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
(UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
(plural) The game of basketball.
A hoop earring.
(Australia, metonym, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse''.“
To bind or fasten using a hoop.
To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
(dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
(dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.
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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 hoop
is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.hoop
English
(wikipedia hoop)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hoop, hoope, from (etyl) ). More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- the cheese hoop , or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese
- stiff with hoops , and armed with ribs of whale
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hoop”, entry in 1989 , Joan Hughes, ''Australian Words and Their Origins , page 261.
Derived terms
* hula hoop * jump through hoopsVerb
(en verb)- to hoop a barrel or puncheon
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Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* hooping cough (Webster 1913)Anagrams
*References
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.}}
