Stagged vs False - What's the difference?
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(stag)
An adult male deer.
A colt, or filly.
(by extension, obsolete) A romping girl.
An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – called also a bull seg. See the Note under ox.
An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
The European wren, .
An unmarried male, a bachelor; a male not accompanying a female at a social event.
A social event for males held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom, sometimes a fund-raiser.
(British) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(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 verb stagged
is (stag).As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.stagged
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*stag
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Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal), (l) (Scotland), (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom
Synonyms
* (social event) bachelor party (US''), stag do (''UK informal ), stag partyDerived terms
* stag beetle * stag do * stag night * stag partyVerb
(stagg)Adverb
(-)- My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.
See also
* bachelorette party, hen party (Webster 1913)Anagrams
* * *false
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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.}}