Crabapple vs False - What's the difference?
crabapple | false |
Any of the wild species of apple tree, genus Malus'', which generally yield small, bitter fruit (in comparison to domestic apples, ''Malus domestica ).
The fruit of this tree.
An unpleasant person; a person who is crabby.
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 crabapple
is any of the wild species of apple tree, genus malus'', which generally yield small, bitter fruit (in comparison to domestic apples, ''malus domestica ).As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.crabapple
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Alternative forms
* crab-apple, crab appleNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (tree) crab; crab tree * (fruit) crab * (crabby person) grouch, grump, misery, moanerDerived terms
* (American crabapple) * cultivated crabapple * (European crabapple) * garland crabapple * Iowa crabapple * Oregon crabapple * showy crabapple * (Siberian crabapple) * sweet crabapple * western crabappleExternal links
* ("crabapple" on Wikipedia) * (Malus) * (Malus) *false
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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.}}