Employ vs False - What's the difference?
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The state of being an employee; employment.
To hire (somebody for work or a job).
* 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
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To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (Othello) , Act 1, Scene iii:
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
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, title= To make busy.
* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (The Merchant of Venice) , Act 2, Scene viii:
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 employ
is the state of being an employee; employment.As a verb employ
is to hire (somebody for work or a job).As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.employ
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- ''The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ .
Synonyms
* employment * hireVerb
(en verb)page 547
- Andrew Hou?toun'' and ''Adam Mu?het'', being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy ''Thomas Rue'' to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound ''Sterling for a year.
- Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you / against the general enemy Ottoman.
- This is a day in which the thoughtsought to be employed on serious subjects.
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- Let it not enter in your mind of love: / Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts / to courtship and such fair ostents of love / as shall conveniently become you there
Derived terms
* employee * employer * employmentExternal links
* * *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.}}