Whittle vs False - What's the difference?
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A knife; especially, a pocket knife, sheath knife, or clasp knife.
* Dryden
* Macaulay
* Betterton
(transitive, or, intransitive) To cut or shape wood with a knife.
To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).
(figurative) To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate.
* Withals
(archaic) A coarse greyish double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.
(archaic) A whittle shawl; a kind of fine woollen shawl, originally and especially a white one.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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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 whittle
is a knife; especially, a pocket knife, sheath knife, or clasp knife or whittle can be (archaic) a coarse greyish double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of england, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.As a verb whittle
is (transitive|or|intransitive) to cut or shape wood with a knife.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.whittle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- A butcher's whittle .
- Rude whittles .
- He wore a Sheffield whittle in his hose.
Verb
(whittl)- When men are well whittled , their tongues run at random.
Derived terms
* whittle down * whittlingEtymology 2
From an (etyl) word for "white"; akin to an Icelandic word for a white bedcover.Noun
(en noun)- (Charles Kingsley)
References
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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.}}
