Calf vs False - What's the difference?
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A young cow or bull.
Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
A young elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals).
A chunk of ice broken off of a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
A small island, near a larger island.
A cabless railroad engine.
(informal, dated) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
* Drayton
(anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
* 1988 , Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", , 47 (6): 28-34.
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 calf
is a young cow or bull or calf can be (anatomy) the back of the leg below the knee.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.calf
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) cealf, from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- (Kane)
- the Calf of Man
- some silly, doting, brainless calf
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* cow * vealEtymology 2
(etyl) kalfi, possibly derived from the same Germanic root as ().Noun
(en-noun)- Sure, his calves are a little weak, but the rest of his physique is so overwhelming, he should place high.
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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.}}
