Allowance vs False - What's the difference?
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The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
* Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --
Acknowledgment.
* The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --
That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
* I can give the boy a handsome allowance. -- .
Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
* After making the largest allowance for fraud. -- .
(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
A child's allowance; pocket money.
(minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
(obsolete) approval; approbation
(obsolete) license; indulgence
To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
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 allowance
is the act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.As a verb allowance
is to put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.allowance
English
(wikipedia allowance)Alternative forms
* allowaunce (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.
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- (John Locke)
Synonyms
* (money) * (minting) (l), (l)Verb
(allowanc)- The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
- Our provisions were allowanced .
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.}}