Trough vs False - What's the difference?
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A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
Any similarly shaped container.
# (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
(Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
(agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
(meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
To eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, 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 trough
is a long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.As a verb trough
is to eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.trough
English
(wikipedia trough)Noun
(en noun)- One of Hank's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
- Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
- There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
- The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
- The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.
- The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.
Verb
(en verb)- he troughed his way through 3 meat pies.
References
* Oxford English Dictionary OnlineSee also
* crib * ditch * trenchfalse
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.}}