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One who, or that which, bends.
A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
(slang) A bout of heavy drinking.
* 1857 , Newspaper,'' April:Bartlett, ''Dictionary of Americanisms, Second Edition (1859),
*:A couple of students of Williams College went over to North Adams on a bender. This would have been serious matter under the best of circumstances, but each returned with a “brick in his hat,” etc.
(chiefly, UK, slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.
A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies
(obsolete, UK, slang) A sixpence.
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(obsolete, slang, US) A spree, a frolic.
(obsolete, slang, US) Something exceptional.
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 proper noun bender
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.bender
English
Noun
(en noun)- He's been out on a bender with his mates.
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Usage notes
In sense “bout of heavy drinking”, usually in form “on a bender ”.Synonyms
* (bout of heavy drinking) binge, spree, toot * (shelter) bender tentDerived terms
* conduit bender * pipe benderReferences
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Anagrams
*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.}}