Jumper vs False - What's the difference?
jumper | false |
Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire .
A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers.
(US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
The larva of the cheese fly.
One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
(horology) A spring to impel the star wheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
(chiefly, British, Australian) A woolen sweater or pullover.
A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children.
(usually as jumpers ) Rompers.
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 jumper
is someone or something that jumps, eg a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing or jumper can be (chiefly|british|australian) a woolen sweater or pullover.As a verb jumper
is to connect with an electrical jumper.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.jumper
English
Etymology 1
See jump.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* high-jumper, long-jumper, triple-jumperEtymology 2
From the term ; see also jibba.Noun
(en noun)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.}}
