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Correspondent vs False - What's the difference?

correspondent | false |

As adjectives the difference between correspondent and false

is that correspondent is corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.

As a noun correspondent

is someone who or something which corresponds.

correspondent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
  • * Hooker
  • Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
  • (with to or with) Conforming; obedient.
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
  • : Pardon, master: / I will be correspondent to command, / And do my spriting gently.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who or something which corresponds.
  • A journalist who sends reports to his newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.
  • Derived terms

    * correspondential * correspondently * correspondentship * foreign correspondent

    Hyponyms

    * stringer

    See also

    * corespondent * in Wikipedia

    References

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    false

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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  • Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
  • Spurious, artificial.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :
  • Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
  • Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
  • :
  • *(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.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of two options on a true-or-false test.
  • Synonyms

    * * See also

    Antonyms

    * (untrue) real, true

    Derived terms

    * false attack * false dawn * false friend * falsehood * falseness * falsify * falsity

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You play me false .

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