Conflate vs False - What's the difference?
conflate | false |
To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.
To mix together different elements.
To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to treat (them) as equivalent.
(biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
* 1999 , Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint :
(biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.
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 conflate and false
is that conflate is (biblical criticism) combining elements from multiple versions of the same text while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a verb conflate
is to bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.As a noun conflate
is (biblical criticism) a conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.conflate
English
Verb
(conflat)Synonyms
* (to bring together) fuse, meld * (mix together) mix, blend, coalesce, commingle, flux, immix, mergeAdjective
(-)- Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.
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(en noun)References
Anagrams
* ----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.}}