Catalyst vs False - What's the difference?
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(chemistry) A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed in the process.
* 1988 , Biochemistry , 3rd edition, page 177
Someone or something that encourages progress or change.
* 1978 , Ernest George Schwiebert, Trout , Volume 2
* 2004 , Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East , page 76
* 2006 , The Freedom Writers, with Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them , Diary 74
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(literature) An inciting incident which that sets the successive conflict into motion.
(automotive) A catalytic converter.
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 catalyst
is (chemistry) a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed in the process.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.catalyst
English
Noun
(en noun)- Enzymes, the catalysts of biological systems, are remarkable molecular devices that determine the pattern of chemical transformations.
- Economic development and integration are working as a catalyst for peace.
- It was a morning baptized by my first cup of coffee, freshly brewed over a gravel-bar fire, while they celebrated with the stronger catalyst of sour-mash whiskey in their fishing-vest cups.
- Israel's fear for the reactor—rather than Egypt's of it—was the greater catalyst for war.
- Rosa Parks was a true catalyst' for change and she was only one person. Hearing about Rosa Parks and her protest showed me that there is hope for me and all the students in Ms. G's classes to truly be ' catalysts for change.
Synonyms
* (Someone or something that encourages progress or change) stimulus, straw that stirs the drinkAntonyms
* (something that encourages change) inhibitor * (something that enhances or accelerates) dampenerDerived terms
* catalyse, catalyze * catalysis * catalyticSee also
* enzymefalse
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Adjective
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