Dung vs False - What's the difference?
dung | false |
(uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
* 1605 , , act III, scene iv, line 129
* 1611 , Authorized King James Version , Malachi 2:3
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , volume 4, page 496
(countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
To fertilize with dung.
(calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
To void excrement.
(obsolete)
(colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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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 verb dung
is to use, employ.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.dung
English
(wikipedia dung)Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl).Noun
- Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool
- Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung' upon your faces, even the ' dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
- The labourer at the dung cart is paid at 3d. or 4d. a day; and on one estate, Lullington, scattering dung is paid a 5d. the hundred heaps.
Derived terms
* dung beetle * dung fly * dung fork * dunghill * dungyVerb
(en verb)- (Dryden)
Etymology 2
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(head)Etymology 3
unknownVerb
(en verb)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.}}