false stroke
1stroke — to attempt to persuade by flattery As you might comfort a pet: He asked himself over a glass of vodka whether Pokryshkin had handled he didn t know the Western expression stroked him enough to create a false impression. (Clancy, 1988)… …
2Sheffer stroke — This article is about the logical NAND operator. For the electronic NAND gate, see Negated AND gate. For other uses, see Nand (disambiguation). Venn diagram of In Boolean functions and propositional calculus, the Sheffer stroke, named after …
3Sheffer's stroke — Both Peirce in 1880 and the American logician H. M. Sheffer in 1913 realized that the truth functions of elementary logic could all be defined from a single function. Defining p / q to mean neither p nor q, p / p is equivalent to not p, (p / q )/ …
4faux pas — [Fr.] 1. Mistake, blunder, indiscretion, false step, false stroke, act of indiscretion. 2. Lapse from virtue, lapse from chastity, false step, lapse, slip, misstep, indiscretion …
5Miscue — Mis*cue , n. 1. (Billiards) A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: To make a mistake; especially to fail to execute a necessary or expected action at the …
6Dennis Brookes — Personal information Full name Dennis Brookes Born 29 October 1915(1915 10 29) Leeds, Yorkshire, England Died 9 March 2006(2006 03 09) (aged 90) Northampton, Northamptonshire, England …
7Jack Meyer (educator and cricketer) — Infobox cricketer biography playername = Jack Meyer country = England fullname = Rollo John Oliver Meyer nickname = Boss living = partialdates = dayofbirth = 15 monthofbirth = 3 yearofbirth = 1905 placeofbirth = Clophill, Bedfordshire… …
8Dugald Clerk — Sir Dugald Clerk KBE, FRS[1] (1854, Glasgow – 1932, Ewhurst, Surrey) was a Scottish engineer who designed the world s first successful two stroke engine[2][3] in 1878[4] and patented it in England in 1881. He was a graduate of Anderson s… …
9Principia Mathematica — For Isaac Newton s book containing basic laws of physics, see Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. The title page of the shortened version of the Principia Mathematica to *56. The Principia Mathematica is a three volume work on the… …
10List of premature obituaries — A premature obituary is an obituary published whose subject is not actually deceased. Such situations have various causes, such as hoaxes or mix ups over names, and usually produce great embarrassment or sometimes more dramatic consequences.… …
