Shrug vs False - What's the difference?
shrug | false |
A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference.
A cropped, cardigan-like garment with short or long sleeves, typically knitted.
(ambitransitive) To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc.
* Addison
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 shrug
is a lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference.As a verb shrug
is (ambitransitive) to raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.shrug
English
Noun
(en noun)- He dismissed my comment with a shrug .
Verb
(shrugg)- ''I asked him for an answer and he just shrugged .
- When he saw the problem, he just shrugged and started fixing it.
- He shrugs his shoulders when you talk of securities.
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.}}