Banter vs False - What's the difference?
banter | false |
Good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
To engage in banter or playful conversation.
To play or do something amusing.
To tease (someone) mildly.
* Washington Irving
* Charlotte Brontë
To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
* Chatham
To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
* Daniel De Foe
(transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.
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 banter
is good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.As a verb banter
is to engage in banter or playful conversation.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.banter
English
Noun
(-)- It seemed like I'd have to listen to her playful banter for hours.
Verb
(en verb)- Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day.
- Mr. Sweeting was bantered about his stature—he was a little man, a mere boy in height and breadth compared with the athletic Malone
- If they banter' your regularity, order, and love of study, ' banter in return their neglect of them.
- We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain.
Synonyms
* (tease) kid, wind upDerived terms
* (l)References
Anagrams
*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.}}