Career vs False - What's the difference?
career | false |
One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
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, title=Runaway Devils Lake
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General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
(archaic) speed
* Wilkins
* 1843 , '', book 3, chapter XIII, ''Democracy
A jouster's path during a joust.
* 1819 :
(obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
* 1603 , John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas , I.48:
(falconry) The flight of a hawk.
(obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 16, author=Ben Dirs, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan, work=BBC Sport
, passage=However, the hosts hit back and hit back hard, first replacement hooker Andrew Hore sliding over, then Williams careering out of his own half and leaving several defenders for dead before flipping the ball to Nonu to finish off a scintillating move.}}
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, 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 career
is one's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.As a verb career
is to move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.career
English
(wikipedia career)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}
- Washington's career as a soldier
- when a horse is running in his full career
- It may be admitted that Democracy, in all meanings of the word, is in full career ; irresistible by any Ritter Kauderwalsch or other Son of Adam, as times go.
- These knights, therefore, their aim being thus eluded, rushed from opposite sides betwixt the object of their attack and the Templar, almost running their horses against each other ere they could stop their career .
- It is said of Cæsar that in his youth being mounted upon a horse, and without any bridle, he made him run a full cariere [tr. (carriere)], make a sodaine stop, and with his hands behind his backe performe what ever can be expected of an excellent ready horse.
- to go back again the same career
Verb
(en verb)- The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.
citation
Synonyms
(move rapidly straight ahead) careenfalse
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.}}
