Brumby vs False - What's the difference?
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(Australia) A wild or feral horse.
* 1967 , December 22, ,
* 1976 , Tom Lee McKnight, Friendly Vermin: A Survey of Feral Livestock in Australia ,
* 1988 , Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked ,
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 brumby
is (australia) a wild or feral horse.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.brumby
English
Noun
(brumbies)page 69,
- He captures brumbies , the wild horses of the outback, running them down on motorcycles and shipping them to the city where they are butchered for pet food.
page 17,
- If the latter situation prevails, brumbies can be developed into valuable stockhorses, either for use on the local property or for sale in other areas.
- Whatever the condition of a captured brumby , there is always the potential of selling it for pet food, fish bait, or even for human consumption.
- Harry Farquharson said there were two or three springs and that the horses were “bloody wild”. He said there were probably about 300 and they were good horses, a long way above the average brumby .
See also
* mustangfalse
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.}}