Entertain vs False - What's the difference?
entertain | false |
To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.
(transitive, and, intransitive) To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.
* Bible, Heb. xiii. 2
To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.
* De Quincey
* Hawthorne
(obsolete) To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
(obsolete) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
* Jeremy Taylor
(obsolete) ; pleasure.
(obsolete) Reception of a guest; welcome.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
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 verb entertain
is to amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.As a noun entertain
is (obsolete) ; pleasure.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.entertain
English
Verb
(en verb)- to entertain friends with lively conversation
- The motivational speaker not only instructed but also entertained the audience.
- They enjoy entertaining a lot.
- Be not forgetful to entertain strangers
- The committee would like to entertain the idea of reducing the budget figures.
- to entertain a proposal
- I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke.
- A rumour gained ground, — and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people.
- You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.
- (Shakespeare)
- to baptize all nations, and entertain them into the services and institutions of the holy Jesus
Derived terms
* entertainer * entertaining * entertainmentNoun
(-)- But neede, that answers not to all requests, / Bad them not looke for better entertayne […].
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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.}}
