Thump vs False - What's the difference?
thump | false |
a blow that produces a muffled sound
* Tatler
the sound of such a blow; a thud
To hit (someone or something) as if to make a .
* (William Shakespeare)
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 19, author=Jonathan Stevenson, work=BBC
, title= To thud or pound.
To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= 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 thump
is a blow that produces a muffled sound.As a verb thump
is to hit (someone or something) as if to make a.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.thump
English
Noun
(en noun)- The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock.
Verb
(en verb)- These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd .
Leeds 1-3 Arsenal, passage=Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.}}
Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
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.}}