Rouse vs False - What's the difference?
rouse | false |
an arousal
(military, British, and, Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse .
to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
* Atterbury
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
(senseid) To provoke (someone) to anger or action.
* Milton
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
* Spenser
* Alexander Pope
(nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul
(obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
an official ceremony over drinks
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
* Tennyson
wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
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 proper noun rouse
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.rouse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body. Figurative meaning "to stir up, provoke to activity" is from 1580s; that of "awaken" is first recorded 1590s.Alternative forms
* rouze (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(rous)- to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
- to rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom
- Night's black agents to their preys do rouse .
- Morpheus rouses from his bed.
- Blustering winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea.
- to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
- Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes.
- Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.
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Etymology 2
From carouse, from the phrase "drink carouse" being wrongly analyzed as "drink a rouse".Noun
(en noun)- And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
- Re-speaking earthly thunder. - "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2 lines 127-128
- Fill the cup, and fill the can, / Have a rouse before the morn.
Anagrams
* English ergative verbsfalse
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Adjective
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