Chapped vs False - What's the difference?
chapped | false |
(chap)
(of skin) dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface
* 1854 Sir Erasmus Wilson - Healthy skin: a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation and management
* 1913 ,
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, 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 adjectives the difference between chapped and false
is that chapped is (of skin) dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a verb chapped
is (chap).chapped
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(head)- For chapped' lips, or '''chapped''' nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, ... / For severely ' chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor ...
- [...] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.
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.}}
