Barn vs False - What's the difference?
barn | false |
(label) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
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, title= (label) A unit of surface area equal to 10-28 square metres.
An arena.
To lay up in a barn.
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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, 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 noun barn
is (label) a building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle or barn can be (dialect|parts of northern england) a child.As a verb barn
is to lay up in a barn.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.barn
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) bern, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.}}
Derived terms
* barnstar * barnstorm * barnyard * barn dance * barn door * barn owl * barn-raising * born in a barn * raised in a barn * smell the barnVerb
(en verb)- Men often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) barn, bern, from (etyl) .Synonyms
* (child) bairnAnagrams
* * English syncopic forms ----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.}}
