Plunge vs False - What's the difference?
plunge | false |
the act of plunging or submerging
a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
(figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse
(slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation
(obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty
(label) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.
To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
To baptize by immersion.
(label) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge one's self.
To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
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(label) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
* (Joseph Hall) (1574-1656)
To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
* (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
To overwhelm, overpower.
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 a noun plunge
is the act of plunging or submerging.As a verb plunge
is (label) to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.plunge
English
Noun
(en noun)- to take the water with a plunge
- plunge in the sea
Verb
(plung)- some wild colt, which flings and plunges
- Plunged and gravelled with three lines of Seneca.
Anagrams
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* * English ergative verbsfalse
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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.}}