Infuse vs False - What's the difference?
infuse | false |
To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
* Coxe
To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
To instill as a quality.
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
To undergo infusion.
* Let it infuse for five minutes.
To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
(obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
* Denham
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 a verb infuse
is to cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.infuse
English
Verb
(infus)- One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.
- Infuse his breast with magnanimity.
- infusing him with self and vain conceit
- That souls of animals infuse themselves / Into the trunks of men.
- Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son, which himself never possessed, or knew, or found the want of, in the acquisition of his wealth?
- (Francis Bacon)
- That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse .
References
* 1902 Webster's International dictionary. * 1984 Consise Oxford 7th ed.See also
* fuse ----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.}}