Caramel vs False - What's the difference?
caramel | false |
A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.
A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.
A yellow-brown color.
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 caramel
is a smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.caramel
English
Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Both the two syllable and the three syllable pronunciations are very common in all regions of the United States, but the trisyllabic pronunciation is more common than the disyllabic one in the South (excluding western Texas), northern New Jersey, eastern New York and New England, while the disyllabic one is more common than the trisyllabic one in other regions.Dialect Survey map 1], showing that both pronunciations are common in all regions, and [http://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/SurveyMaps/ map 2, showing which regions the di- and tri-syllabic pronunciations predominate in
Derived terms
* caramelise, caramelizeSee also
* fudge, toffeeAnagrams
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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.}}