Dint vs False - What's the difference?
dint | false |
(label) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
*, I.i:
*:Much daunted with that dint , her sence was dazd.
* 1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XI, xxxi:
*:Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint , or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.
Force, power; especially in (by dint of).
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.
The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
* (1809-1892)
*:every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]
:(Dryden)
To dent
* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Jeffery Farnol, title=Beltane The Smith, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God! }}
* {{quote-book, year=1854, author=W. Harrison Ainsworth, title=The Star-Chamber, Volume 2, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot. }}
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 dint
is (label) a blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.As a verb dint
is to dent.As a contraction dint
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.dint
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dint, dent, . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
Derived terms
* by dint ofVerb
(en verb)citation
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Etymology 2
Contraction
(head)Anagrams
* ----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.}}