Colt vs False - What's the difference?
colt | false |
A young male horse.
A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
* 1594 , , I. ii. 38:
(nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
(obsolete) To horse; to get with young.
* 1610 , , II. iv. 133:
(obsolete) To befool.
* 1594 , , II. ii. 36:
To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
* Spenser
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 a noun colt
is a young male horse.As a verb colt
is (obsolete|transitive) to horse; to get with young.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.colt
English
Noun
(en noun)- Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but / talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to / his own good parts that he can shoe him himself.
Derived terms
* colt's toothSee also
* stallion, mare, foal, filly, horselingVerb
(en verb)- Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.
- What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
- They shook off their bridles and began to colt .
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.}}