Kicking vs False - What's the difference?
kicking | false |
(slang) (often kickin') Terrific, great (of clothes) smart, fashionable.
(slang) Alive, active (especially in the phrase alive and kicking )
The action of the verb to kick .
A violent assault involving repeated kicks.
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 adjectives the difference between kicking and false
is that kicking is (slang) (often kickin') terrific, great (of clothes) smart, fashionable while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun kicking
is the action of the verb to kick .As a verb kicking
is .kicking
English
Adjective
(head)- a kicking pair of jeans
- a kicking party
- still kicking at 89
Noun
(en noun)- In boxing, kicking one's opponent is not allowed.
- The bullies pushed the boy over and gave him a kicking .
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* alive and kickingfalse
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.}}
