Changeling vs False - What's the difference?
changeling | false |
(mythology) In British, Irish and Scandinavian mythology, an infant of a fairy, sprite or troll that the creature has secretly exchanged for a human infant.
(informal, rare) An infant secretly exchanged with another infant; swapling.
(science fiction, and, fantasy) An organism which can change shape to mimic others.
(obsolete) A simpleton; an idiot.
* Dryden
(obsolete) One apt to change; a waverer.
* Shakespeare
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 changeling
is (mythology) in british, irish and scandinavian mythology, an infant of a fairy, sprite or troll that the creature has secretly exchanged for a human infant.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.changeling
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Macaulay)
- Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out.
- Fickle changelings .
Synonyms
* (sense, fairy's child) oaf (obsolete) * (being that can change shape) shape-shifter * (a child exchanged for another)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.}}