Whisk vs False - What's the difference?
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A quick, light sweeping motion.
A kitchen utensil, made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle, used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
* Samuel Pepys
(archaic) An impertinent fellow.
To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
* J. Fletcher
In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
To move something rapidly and with no warning.
* Walpole
To move lightly and nimbly.
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(obsolete) The card game whist.
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 noun whisk
is a quick, light sweeping motion or whisk can be (obsolete) the card game whist.As a verb whisk
is to move something with quick light sweeping motions.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.whisk
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl) viskAccording to] eng. (vist laant fra nord. ) whisk, the English (certainly borrowed from Old Norse) whisk[http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?action=search&word=whisk&resource=Webster's&quicksearch=on Etymology in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, from (etyl) . Cognate with Danish (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .
Noun
(en noun)- With a quick whisk , she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom.
- He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.
- Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving.
- '' I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor.
- My wife in her new lace whisk .
- (Halliwell)
Verb
(en verb)- He that walks in gray, whisking his riding rod.
- I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.
References
Etymology 2
Noun
(-)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.}}