Briar vs False - What's the difference?
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Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus'', and ''Smilax genera.
, a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.
(figurative) Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
* (rfdate) (Cowper)
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 briar
is any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the rosa, rubus'', and ''smilax genera or briar can be the white heath,.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.briar
English
(wikipedia briar) (Erica arborea)Alternative forms
* brierEtymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The thorns and briers of reproof.
Derived terms
* briar-patchEtymology 2
From (etyl) , assimilated with Etymology 1, above.Derived terms
* briar-pipefalse
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.}}