Jargon vs False - What's the difference?
jargon | false |
(uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
(countable) Language characteristic of a particular group.
* 2014 , Ian Hodder, Archaeological Theory Today
(uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
* Macaulay
To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
* Longfellow
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 jargon
is jargon.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.jargon
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
- In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.
- A barbarous jargon .
Synonyms
* (language characteristic of a group) argot, cant, intalk * vernacularDerived terms
* jargonaut * jargoneer * jargonist * jargonistic * jargonization * jargonizeVerb
(en verb)- The noisy jay, / Jargoning like a foreigner at his food.
Etymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl) giargone, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* jargoonExternal links
* (projectlink) * ----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.}}