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(anatomy) Any muscle having two heads.
* 1901 , Michael Foster & Lewis E. Shore, Physiology for Beginners? , page 73
Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.
* 1996 , Robert Kennedy & Dwayne Hines II, Animal Arms? , page 21
(informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.
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* 2005 , Lisa Plumley, Once Upon a Christmas? , page 144
(prosody) A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia)
* 1987 , Martin Litchfield West, Introduction to Greek Metre
* 2000 , James I. Porter, Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future , page 347
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 biceps
is biceps.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.biceps
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The leg is bent by the action of the flexor muscles situated on the back of the thigh, the chief of these being called the biceps of the leg.
- The arm muscles are the show muscles of the physique. When someone asks to "see your muscles," they are most likely referring to your arms, and more specifically, your biceps .
- Biting her lip, she held his biceps for balance and waded farther.
- Also it is advisable to distinguish this ( ? ? ) — ? ? — rhythm, where the princeps was probably shorter in duration than the biceps (as in the dactylic hexameter), from true (marching) anapaests, in which they were equal.
- This means that in the metrical sequence
Usage notes
* Now often mistaken as a plural form; see bicep. An archaic plural bicipites, borrowed from the Latin, also exists.Synonyms
* (the biceps brachii) biceps brachii, biceps cubiti * (the upper arm) guns, pythons, upper armAntonyms
* (prosody) princepsDerived terms
* bicep * biceps curlfalse
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.}}
