Dictation vs False - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words
(countable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down
(countable) The act of ordering or commanding
(uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner
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 dictation
is (uncountable) dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.dictation
English
Noun
- Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.
- 1908: Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today.
- 1852:' Lysander Spooner, ''An Essay on the Trial by Jury'' - ...jurors in England have formerly understood it to be their right and duty to judge only according to their consciences, and not to submit to any ' dictation from the court, either as to law or fact.
- His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation .
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.}}