Shoplifting vs False - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The action of stealing goods from a shop; the action of the verb shoplift.
* 1724 , The Chronological Diary For the Year 1724 ,
* 1757 December 22, The London Chronicle , Volume II: June 30 - December 31,
* 2006 , Gennaro F. Vito, Jeffrey R. Maahs, Ronald M. Holmes, Criminology: Theory, Research, And Policy ,
(countable) A theft from a shop during trading hours.
* 2000 , Elmer H Johnson, Carol Johnson, Linking Community and Corrections in Japan ,
* 2004 , “An American”, Arlington?s Blood , iUniverse,
* 2012 , Lawrence Fennelly, Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention , 5th Edition,
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, 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 noun shoplifting
is (uncountable) the action of stealing goods from a shop; the action of the verb shoplift.As a verb shoplifting
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.shoplifting
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(wikipedia shoplifting)Noun
page 45,
- William Grove'' for robbing his Master of twenty-sive Guineas ; and ''Catharine Knox for Shoplifting .
page 594,
- Yesterday Afternoon a Woman well dre?s'd, was detected at Mr. Flint?s, a Haberdasher on London-Bridge, in Shoplifting , and on examining her, there were found on her ?ome Goods belonging to Mr. Kennet, a Haberdasher at the ?ame Place.
page 337,
- Shoplifting is one of the most prevalent crimes and it costs retailers millions of dollars each year.
page 180,
- In high school, he bleached his hair and began a series of shopliftings and bicycle thefts.
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- And we hardly even consider the countless robberies, shopliftings , burglaries, carjackings, kidnappings, stalkings, intimidations and harassments.
page 171,
- When we described the 80-20 rule, we mentioned that 5% of the stores in Danvers, Massachusetts, accounted for 50% of the reported shopliftings .
Verb
(head)false
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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.}}
