Rogue vs False - What's the difference?
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A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
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, chapter=4 * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
A mischievous scamp.
* Shakespeare
A vagrant.
Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself. (rfex)
An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
* 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties , Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
(label) A conduct.
Vicious and solitary.
(by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.
(by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.
* 2004: , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
Mischievous, unpredictable.
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, title= (horticulture) To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard. Especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
* 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties , Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
(obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
(obsolete) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, 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 verb rogue
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.rogue
English
(wikipedia rogue)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. […]”}}
- As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues , but the one who set the tone for entire series.
- Ah, you sweet little rogue , you!
- Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling'' or ''roguing . ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue .
Synonyms
* SeeAdjective
(en adjective)- In the minds of Republican hard-liners, the "Silent Majority" of Americans who had elected the President, and even Nixon's two Democrat predecessors, China was a gigantic nuke-wielding rogue state prepared to overrun the free world at any moment.
Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
Verb
(rogu)- Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling'' or ''roguing . ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.
- (Cudworth)
- (Spenser)
Derived terms
* roguish * rogues' gallery * rogue state * rogue trader * rogue waveSee also
* rouge the shade of redAnagrams
* ----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.}}