Bowel vs False - What's the difference?
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(chiefly, medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
(in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts I:
(in the plural) The (deep) interior of something.
* 1592 , , I. i. 129:
(in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
* 1602 , , II. i. 48:
* Fuller
(obsolete, in plural) offspring
* 1604 , , III. i. 29:
To disembowel.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, page 149:
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 noun bowel
is (chiefly|medicine) a part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.As a verb bowel
is to disembowel.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.bowel
English
Noun
(en noun)- And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.
- The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.
- His soldiers cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
- Thou thing of no bowels , thou!
- Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels .
- Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels , which do call thee sire,
Derived terms
* bowel cancer * bowel movement * bowel obstruction * bowelless * disbowel * disembowel * embowel * irritable bowel syndrome * large bowel * unbowelVerb
(bowell)- Their bodies are first bowelled , then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].
See also
* large bowel * small bowel * small intestine * colon * laxative * tharmAnagrams
*false
English
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.}}