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shroud | false |

As a noun shroud

is that which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

As a verb shroud

is to cover with a shroud.

As an adjective false is

(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.

shroud

English

(wikipedia shroud)

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  • * Sandys
  • swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
  • Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
  • * Shakespeare
  • a dead man in his shroud
  • That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
  • * Byron
  • Jura answers through her misty shroud .
  • A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
  • * Chapman
  • The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
  • * Withals
  • a vault, or shroud , as under a church
  • The branching top of a tree; foliage.
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  • (nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
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  • One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover with a shroud.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
  • To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
  • The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
    The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
  • One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
  • * Dryden
  • Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.
  • To take shelter or harbour.
  • * Milton
  • If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.

    false

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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  • Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
  • Spurious, artificial.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :
  • Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
  • Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
  • :
  • *(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.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of two options on a true-or-false test.
  • Synonyms

    * * See also

    Antonyms

    * (untrue) real, true

    Derived terms

    * false attack * false dawn * false friend * falsehood * falseness * falsify * falsity

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You play me false .

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