Adverb vs False - What's the difference?
adverb | false |
(grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
* (modifying a verb'') ''I often went outside hiking during my stay in Japan.
* (modifying an adjective'') ''It was often cold outside.
* (modifying another adverb'') ''Not often .
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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 adverb
is adverb.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.adverb
English
Noun
(en noun)- ‘Fortunately your papa appreciates it; he appreciates it immensely ’—that was one of the things Miss Overmore also said, with a striking insistence on the adverb .
Usage notes
* Adverbs comprise a fundamental category of words in most languages. In English, adverbs are typically formed from adjectives by appending (-ly) and are used to modify verbs, verb phrases, adjectives, other adverbs, and entire sentences, but not nouns or noun phrases.Derived terms
* adverbial * adverbially * conjunctive adverb * pronominal adverbSee also
*Anagrams
* ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Noun
References
* ----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.}}