Pontoon vs False - What's the difference?
pontoon | false |
(military) A flat-bottomed boat used as a support for a temporary bridge.
A floating structure supporting a bridge or dock.
A box used to raise a sunken vessel.
A float of a seaplane.
(card games) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it.
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 pontoon
is (military) a flat-bottomed boat used as a support for a temporary bridge or pontoon can be (card games) a card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.pontoon
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ponton, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (floating structure used as a bridge) pontoon bridgeEtymology 2
Probably from .Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (card game) vingt-et-unSee also
* baccarat * blackjack * twenty-onefalse
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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.}}