Clog vs False - What's the difference?
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A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
A blockage.
(UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
* 1987 , :
A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
* Hudibras
* Tennyson
That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
* Burke
To block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).
To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
* Dryden
To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
* Addison
* Shakespeare
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 clog
is a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.As a verb clog
is to block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.clog
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia clog)- Dutch people rarely wear clog s these days.
- The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
- Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clog s.
- As a dog by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog .
- A clog of lead was round my feet.
- All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.
Derived terms
* clogs to clogs in three generations * pop one's clogsVerb
- Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
- The roads are clogged up with traffic.
- The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
- The commodities are clogged with impositions.
- You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.
false
English
Adjective
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