Stumble vs False - What's the difference?
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A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
An error or blunder.
A clumsy walk.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
* Sir Walter Scott
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, title= To make a mistake or have trouble.
To cause to stumble or trip.
(figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
* Milton
* John Locke
To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .
* Dryden
* C. Smart
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= 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.
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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 stumble
is a fall, trip or substantial misstep.As a verb stumble
is to trip or fall; to walk clumsily.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.stumble
English
Noun
(en noun)The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
Synonyms
* (a blunder) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, thinko * See alsoVerb
(stumbl)- He stumbled up the dark avenue.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.}}
- False and dazzling fires to stumble men.
- One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.
- Ovid stumbled , by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.
- Forth as she waddled in the brake, / A grey goose stumbled on a snake.
Derived terms
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*Anagrams
*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.}}