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A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus ), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
* 1599 , , III. ii. 80:
A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries ).
* 1598 , , II. i. 74:
Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
(informal) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
(slang) An informer or snitch; a squealer.
(slang) A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal).
(Australia, informal) A yellow sticker of unroadworthiness.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Warning About Speed Traps
, group=alt.folklore.urban
, author=Jacco Zwetsloot
, date=September 12
, year=1993
, passage=The tendency in these types of situations (as far as I can see) is that because I don't think the act itself is illegal, the police will go through your vehicle systematically loking for anything wrong with it, to slap a canary on it (that's slang for an unroadworthy sticker) or present you with some other fine.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Noisy Bikes (Update)
, group=aus.motorcycles
, author=Garry Lawson
, date=January 16
, year=1999
, passage=Yes, if the exhaust is to noisey(sic) they can slap a yellow canary on it, but the[n] who cares you got rid of it.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Spare tyres
, group=aus.cars
, author=Noddy
, date=February 14
, year=2003
, passage=You don't have to carry a spare wheel for a car to be roadworthy, and if you *do* carry one, it doesn't have to be in a roadworthy condition *unless* you fit it [to] the car and drive on it.
If it's not and you get pinched, expect a canary ... to dance nimbly (as in the canary dance)
* 1590 , , III. i. 11:
(slang) to inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
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 canary
is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.canary
English
(wikipedia canary)Noun
(canaries)- I will to my honest knight / Falstaff, and drink canary with him.
- and make you dance canary / With sprightly fire and motion;
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If it's not and you get pinched, expect a canary ...
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Hyponyms
*Derived terms
* canary in a coal mine * warrant canaryVerb
(en-verb)- but to jig off a tune at / the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet,
Derived terms
* bush canary * canary creeper * canary grass * canary in a coal mine * canary yellowSee also
*false
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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.}}