Plink vs False - What's the difference?
plink | false |
(colloquial) To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.
* 1971: Louis C. Reichman, Barry J. Wishart, American Politics and Its Interpreters
* 1997: Kevin Osborn, Signe Larson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bringing Up Baby
* 2004: Angela Elwell Hunt, The Truth Teller
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 plink
is a short, high-pitched sound.As a verb plink
is (colloquial) to play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.plink
English
Verb
(en verb)- He can plink out Let Me Call You Sweetheart for reporters on a piano or rib himself on television talk shows....
- Your child may also begin to plink out a few notes on a xylophone or toy piano before her first birthday.
- The female deputy sat down at the ramshackle piano and proceeded to plink out the opening notes of "Heart and Soul."
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.}}