Eighth vs False - What's the difference?
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The ordinal form of the number eight.
(eighth ones is used for the plural ) The person or thing in the eighth position.
One of eight equal parts of a whole.
(slang) An "eighth" of an ounce equalling approximately 3.5 grams in marijuana or other drugs.
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 adjectives the difference between eighth and false
is that eighth is the ordinal form of the number eight while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun eighth
is (eighth ones is used for the plural ) the person or thing in the eighth position.eighth
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Adjective
(head)Synonyms
* , 8th; (in names of monarchs and popes ) VIIINoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (person or thing in the eighth position) eighth one * (One of eight equal parts) , henry (for an eighth of an ounce of marijuana in the UK)Anagrams
* English ordinal numbersfalse
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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.}}