Rug vs False - What's the difference?
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A partial covering for a floor.
(UK, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.
* 1855 , , A Boy?s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert?s Note-Book ,
* 1906 July 27, Government Gazette of Western Australia ,
* 1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia , Volume 22,
* 1997 , Alan Sharpe, Vivien Encel, Murder!: 25 True Australian Crimes ,
A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.
* Holinshed
A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
(slang) A wig; a hairpiece.
(Scotland) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
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 rug
is horn.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.rug
English
Noun
(en noun)page 254,
- They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.
page 2297,
- Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug', and, in winter time, not less than one additional ' rug .
page 181,
- My own son had a bunny rug' of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny ' rug to suck his finger with.?
page 22,
- He brought with him a rug and a sheet, and lay down by the fire.
- They spin the choicest rug' in Ireland. A friend of mine repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford ' rugs .
Usage notes
* (partial floor covering) The terms rug'' and carpet are not precise synonyms: a ''rug'' covers part of the floor; a ''carpet'' covers most or a large area of the floor; a ''fitted carpet runs wall-to-wall.Synonyms
* (small carpet) carpet, mat * (wig) toupee, wigDerived terms
* area rug * cut a rug * scatter rug * snug as a bug in a rugVerb
(rugg)- (Sir Walter Scott)
Derived terms
* rug up (Webster 1913)External links
* * *Anagrams
* ----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.}}