Cuneiform vs False - What's the difference?
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Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
* 1936 , W. Frank Calderon, Animal Painting and Anatomy , page 297
* 1952 , Aileen Fox, Roman Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum): Excavations in the War-damaged Areas, 1945-1947 , page 69
Written in the writing system.
* 1911 , Alvin Sylvester Zerbe, The Antiquity of Hebrew Writing and Literature , page 182
* 2000 , Jöran Friberg, A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts , page ix
An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clay tablets.
(anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(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 cuneiform and false
is that cuneiform is having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun cuneiform
is an ancient mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in sumer around the 30th century bc, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clay tablets.cuneiform
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(wikipedia cuneiform)Alternative forms
* cuniformAdjective
(-)- The cuneiform tendon is always sharply defined when the hock is flexed by the action of the muscle.
- The cuneiform leaf is not the characteristic heart-shaped early form (O. and P. , p. 241).
- There, too, it was originally the vulgar script in contrast with the official cuneiform script employed for all official documents, compacts, etc.
- The text is inscribed on a clay tablet of a very unusual format. The only other known mathematical cuneiform' text on a clay tablet of a similar format is also the only previously known Kassite (and therefore post-Old-Babylonian) mathematical ' cuneiform text.
Synonyms
* wedgelike * wedgyNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cuneiformistfalse
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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.}}