Jetty vs False - What's the difference?
jetty | false |
A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.
A wharf or dock extending from the shore.
(architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
(obsolete) To jut out; to project.
(archaic) Made of jet, or like jet in color.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.75:
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , vol. 1:
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
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 adjectives the difference between jetty and false
is that jetty is (archaic) made of jet, or like jet in color while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun jetty
is a structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.As a verb jetty
is (obsolete|intransitive) to jut out; to project.jetty
English
(wikipedia jetty)Etymology 1
From (etyl) ‘pier, jetty, causeway’. Compare jet, jutty.Noun
(jetties)Synonyms
* (protective structure) mole, breakwater * pierCoordinate terms
* (pier) quay, leveeHypernyms
* (pier) wharf, dockVerb
(en-verb)- (Florio)
Etymology 2
Adjective
(er)- those large black eyes were so blackly fringed, / The glossy rebels mocked the jetty stain [...].
- She raised her face veil [...] showing two black eyes fringed with jetty lashes, whose glances were soft and languishing and whose perfect beauty was ever blandishing [...].
Derived terms
* jettinessReferences
*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.}}