Swallow vs False - What's the difference?
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To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4:
* 2011 , Jonathan Jones, The Guardian , 21 Apr 2011:
To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
* John Locke
* 2010 , "What are the wild waves saying", The Economist , 28 Oct 2010:
To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
* 1979 , VC Andrews, Flowers in the Attic :
To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* 2011 , Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian , 22 Apr 2011:
To engross; to appropriate; usually with up .
* Alexander Pope
To retract; to recant.
* Shakespeare
To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
(archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
(nautical) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
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 verb swallow
is to cause (food, drink etc) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.As a noun swallow
is (archaic) a deep chasm or abyss in the earth or swallow can be a small, migratory bird of the hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.swallow
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) swolowen, swolwen, . See also (l). The noun is from late (etyl) , from the verb.Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.
- Clothes are to be worn and food is to be swallowed : they remain trapped in the physical world.
- The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time.
- His body, like so many others swallowed by the ocean’s hungry maw, was never found.
- My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow .
- She swallowed nervously then, appearing near sick with what she had to say.
- Though that story be not so readily swallowed .
- Americans swallowed his tale because they wanted to.
- Homer excels in this, that he swallowed up the honour of those who succeeded him.
- to swallow one's opinions
- swallowed his vows whole
- to swallow an affront or insult
Derived terms
* bitter pill to swallow * swallowable * swallow one's pride * swallow upSee also
* dysphagiaNoun
(en noun)- He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.
Etymology 2
(wikipedia swallow) (etyl) swealwe, from Germanic. Cognate with Danish svale, Dutch zwaluw, German Schwalbe, Swedish svala.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (small bird of Hirundunudae) martlet * barn swallow (official British name)Derived terms
* one swallow does not make a summer * swallow-tailedAnagrams
* wallowsfalse
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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.}}