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snapshot | false |

As a noun snapshot

is a photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a moment of opportunity.

As a verb snapshot

is to take a snapshot of.

As an adjective false is

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

snapshot

English

Noun

(wikipedia snapshot) (en noun)
  • A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a moment of opportunity.
  • He carried a snapshot of his daughter.
  • A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
  • The article offered a snapshot of life in that region.
  • (computing) A file or set of files captured at a particular time, capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.
  • This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.
  • (soccer) A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=March 2 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Yet Revell misjudged his promising position in the area to put his point-blank snapshot wide from only six yards out. }}

    Verb

  • To take a snapshot of.
  • * 1904 , David T Hanbury, Sport and Travel in the Northland of Canada
  • As he did not appear disposed to move off, I took my camera and approached within about thirty yards, when I snapshotted him.
  • * 2007 , David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure (page 30)
  • Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.

    false

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
  • , title= 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.}}
  • 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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