Engrave vs False - What's the difference?
engrave | false |
(lb) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
(lb) To carve (something) into a material.
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(obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
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 verb engrave
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.engrave
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Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 1
From earlier ingrave, equivalent to . More at (l).Verb
(engrav)Synonyms
* carve, etch, inscribeEtymology 2
From .Verb
(engrav)- So both agree their bodies to engraue ; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].
Anagrams
* ----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.}}
