Cashier vs False - What's the difference?
cashier | false |
To dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service.
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* 1968 , , “What We Owe Our Parasites” (speech):
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p.510:
* 2012 , (Jonathan Keates), ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review , 402:
One who works at a till or receives payments.
Person in charge of the cash of a business or bank.
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 verb cashier
is to dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service.As a noun cashier
is one who works at a till or receives payments.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.cashier
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) casseren.Verb
(en verb)- His ninth Legion having mutined neere unto Placentia , he presently cassiered the same with great ignominie unto it.
- They found an Army officer who had been a military failure until Bernard Baruch promoted him to General, and who in 1945 should have been able to hope for nothing better than that he could escape a court martial and thus avoid being cashiered , if he could prove that all the atrocities and all the sabotage of American interests of which he had been guilty in Europe had been carried out over his protest and under categorical orders from the President.
- The Directory had been deregulating the economy since Thermidor; but it had not cashiered the police spies on which the Terror had depended, and these allowed the government to keep abreast of the threat.
- Inevitably his appeals for financial assistance were ignored and, though not cashiered from the army, he was pointedly cold-shouldered by his brother officers.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) caissier.Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*false
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.}}