Raspberry vs False - What's the difference?
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The plant Rubus idaeus .
Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus .
The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
A (colour) red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
Of a dark pinkish red.
To gather or forage for .
* 1903 , M. E. Waller, A Daughter of the Rich , Little, Brown, and Company (1903),
* 1917 , Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams , Chapter 37:
* 1944 , Cornelius Weygandt, The Heart of New Hampshire: Things Held Dear by Folks of the Old Stocks , G. P. Putnam's Sons (1944),
* 1976 , Emily Ward, The Way Things Were: An Autobiography of Emily Ward , Newport Press (1976),
* 1988 , Charles McCarry, The Bride of the Wilderness , MysteriousPress.com (2011), ISBN 9781453232521,
(pejorative, colloquial) A noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin, used humorously or to express derision.
(colloquial) To make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.
Cockney rhyming slang
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 raspberry and false
is that raspberry is containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun raspberry
is the plant rubus idaeus or raspberry can be (pejorative|colloquial) a noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin, used humorously or to express derision.As a verb raspberry
is to gather or forage for or raspberry can be (colloquial) to make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.raspberry
English
(wikipedia raspberry)Etymology 1
From earlier raspis berry'', possibly from ''raspise'' (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-(etyl) ''vinum raspeys , of uncertain origin.Noun
(raspberries)Derived terms
* black raspberry * raspberry vinegar * Scotland raspberrySynonyms
* (obsolete) hindberryAdjective
(-)- She wore a raspberry beret'' — lyrics of ''Raspberry Beret , by the musician
Verb
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- "Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."
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- Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying , and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.
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- My mother told my sister Sally and me that if we were good little girls we might go raspberrying up on the mountains when the raspberries were ripe.
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- In strawberry time she had seen individual bears grazing in the meadows along the bluff, and later, while raspberrying , she heard one gobbling fruit and snorting on the other side of the bush.
See also
* * boysenberry * loganberry * salmonberry * tayberry * thimbleberry * whitebark raspberryEtymology 2
Cockney rhyming slang raspberry tart'', for ''fart . However raspberry is rarely used for a fart, merely a noise which imitates it.Noun
(raspberries)Synonyms
* (noise) Bronx cheer (US), razzDerived terms
* to blow a raspberryVerb
(en-verb)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.}}