Disengagement vs False - What's the difference?
disengagement | false |
Release or detachment from a physical situation or other involvement.
* 1818 , , Rob Roy , ch. 10,
*:My thanks to you for my speedy disengagement from the ridiculous accusation of Morris.
The separation or release of a chemical.
*1836 , , Astoria , ch. 26,
*:Others have endeavored to account for these discharges of "mountain artillery" on humbler principles; attributing them . . . to the disengagement of hydrogen, produced by subterraneous beds of coal in a state of ignition.
(dated) Leisure]]; relief from [[responsibility, responsibilities or onerous activities.
(military, politics) Withdrawal from combat, confrontation, or the assertion of influence.
Termination of an agreement to be married.
(fencing) A circular movement of the blade that blocks an opponent's parry.
*1895 , , Taquisara , ch. 23,
*:There was a quick flash, a disengagement , a feint, a lunge that was like a man's, and as her long left arm shot out like lightning, her foil bent nearly double.
(medicine, obstetrics) The emergence of the fetus from the birth canal.
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 disengagement
is release or detachment from a physical situation or other involvement.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.disengagement
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(en noun)References
* *Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.false
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(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.}}
