Squib vs False - What's the difference?
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(military) A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode.
* Blackstone
A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc.
(mining) A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
(US) Any small firecracker sold to the general public. Usually available in special clusters designed to explode in series after a single master fuze is lit.
(automotive) The heating element used to set off the sodium azide pellets in a vehicle's airbag.
(cinema or theater special effects) A small explosive used to replicate a bullet hitting a surface.
(dated) A short piece of witty writing; a lampoon.
* Goldsmith
(dated) A writer of lampoons.
* Tatler
(legal) In a legal casebook, a short summary of a legal action placed between more extensively quoted cases.
(academia) A short article, often published in journals, that introduces theoretically problematic empirical data or discusses an overlooked theoretical problem. In contrast to a typical article, a squib need not answer the questions that it poses.
* 2008 , William J. Idsardi,
(archaic) An unimportant, paltry, or mean-spirited person.
* Spenser, Mother Hubberds Tale ll. 369-371:
(slang) A sketched concept or visual solution, usually very quick and not too detailed. A word most commonly used within the Graphic Design industry.
To make a sound such as a small explosion.
(colloquial, dated) To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute.
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 squib
is (military) a small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode.As a verb squib
is to make a sound such as a small explosion.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.squib
English
Noun
(en noun)- English Navy squibs set fire to two dozen enemy ships in a Dutch harbor during the 16th century battle against the Spanish Armada.
- The making and selling of fireworks and squibs is punishable.
- who copied his squibs , and re-echoed his jokes.
- The squibs are those who in the common phrase of the world are called libellers, lampooners, and pamphleteers.
Combinatorics for Metrical Feet, in Biolinguistics Vol 2, No 2
- In this squib I will prove that the number of possible metrical parsings into feet under these assumptions […]
- Its a hard case when men of good deserving / must either driven be perforce to sterving / or asked for their pas by everie squib
Derived terms
* damp squibUsage notes
In the uses squib to mean a child of someone magical who doesn’t have magical powers.Verb
(squibb)- A squibbed in the jungle.
- to squib a little debate
References
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Adjective
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