Downwind vs False - What's the difference?
downwind | false |
in the same direction as the wind is blowing
* 1888: Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills
(+ from) positioned relative to something in such a way that it can be smelled in the wind
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 an adverb downwind
is in the same direction as the wind is blowing.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.downwind
English
(wikipedia downwind)Adverb
(en adverb)- ... the aftermath of the dust-storm came up and caught us both, and drove us downwind like pieces of paper.
- I don't want to live downwind from a pig farm.
Antonyms
* upwindAnagrams
*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.}}