Wicket vs False - What's the difference?
wicket | false |
A small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one.
A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 386:
(British) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller; a (ticket barrier) at a rail station.
(cricket) One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman.
(cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
(cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together.
(cricket) The pitch.
(cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
(croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
(skiing, snowboarding) A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
(US, dialect) A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
(mining) The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
(Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML.
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 wicket
is a small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.wicket
English
Noun
(en noun)- As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket .
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Derived terms
* (l) * (l)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.}}