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Snub vs False - What's the difference?

snub | false |

As adjectives the difference between snub and false

is that snub is conspicuously short while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.

As a noun snub

is a deliberate affront or slight.

As a verb snub

is to slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone or snub can be to sob with convulsions.

snub

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Conspicuously short.
  • *
  • *:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
  • Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
    • Derived terms
    * retrosnub * snub cube * snub disphenoid * snub dodecahedron * snub polyhedron * vertisnub

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deliberate affront or slight.
    • I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub .
  • A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
  • (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
  • * Spenser
    • [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
    Derived terms
    * snubbing post * snub line

    Verb

    (snubb)
  • To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.
  • To turn down; to dismiss.
    • He snubbed my offer to help.
  • To stub out (a cigarette etc).
  • To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
  • To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
    • Synonyms
    * (to slight or ignore) cut someone cold, cut someone dead

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) , and English snuff (transitive verb).

    Verb

    (snubb)
  • To sob with convulsions.
    • (Bailey)

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    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.
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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.
  • :
  • 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

    Related terms

    * falsifiable

    Adverb

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

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