Adventurer vs False - What's the difference?
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One who adventures; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
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A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
A social pretender on the lookout for advancement; one who pushes his fortune by equivocal means, as false pretences.
(video games) A player of adventure games or text adventures.
* 1983 , PC Mag (volume 2, number 2, July 1983, page 351)
* 1992 , Tim Kemp, Microfair Madness'' (game review in ''Your Sinclair issue 75, March 1992)
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(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 adventurer
is one who adventures; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.adventurer
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}
- Meanwhile, the ranks of adventurers grow, be they manic puzzle-solvers or people like me, who like to look under the Robners' beds just for the hell of it.
- It's a challenging game for the inexperienced adventurer , and should even give the hardened pros a bit of a run for their money.
Synonyms
* (soldier of fortune) seeExternal links
* *false
English
Adjective
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