Muffled vs False - What's the difference?
muffled | false |
(muffle)
Anything that mutes or deadens sound.
A warm piece of clothing for the hands.
A kiln or furnace, often electric, with no direct flames (a muffle furnace)
The bare end of the nose between the nostrils, especially in ruminants.
To wrap (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection; often with up .
* Addison
* Dryden
* Arbuthnot
To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound.
To mute or deaden (a sound etc.).
* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 397:
(dated) To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
(dated) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
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 verb muffled
is (muffle).As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.muffled
English
Verb
(head)muffle
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(muffl)- The face lies muffled up within the garment.
- He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes.
- muffled up in darkness and superstition
- to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock
- The singer's voice was muffled by the thick walls, yet Tyrion knew the verse.
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.}}