Brown vs False - What's the difference?
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A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
Black tar heroin.
(sometimes capitalised) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance
Having a brown colour.
(obsolete) Gloomy.
To become brown.
(cooking) To cook something until it becomes brown.
To tan.
To make brown or dusky.
* Barlow
To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
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 brown
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.brown
English
(wikipedia brown)Noun
(en noun)- The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
Adjective
(en-adj)Antonyms
* (having brown as its colour) nonbrownDescendants
* American Sign Language:Verb
(en verb)- Fry the onions until they brown .
- Brown the onions in a large frying pan.
- Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
- A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
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- the browning of America
Derived terms
(terms derived from "brown") * brown adipose tissue * brown ale * brown bastard * brown bear * Brown Bess * Brown Betty * brown-bill * brown bread * brown coal * brown dwarf * brown earth * brown falcon * brown fat * brown goods * brown hawk * brown lacewing * brown lung * brown mustard * brown note * brown paper * brown patch * brown rat * brown rice * brown rot * brown sauce * Brown Shirt * brown sugar * Brown Swiss * brown thrasher * brown trout * brown-bag * brown-bagger * browned off * brownfield * brownie * Brownie point * brownish * brownnose * brownout * brownprint * brownstone * embrown * golden brown * hash browns * meadow brown * nut-borwn * Vandyke brownSee also
* golding * 1000 English basic words ----false
English
Adjective
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