False vs Mastermind - What's the difference?
false | mastermind |
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.
A person with an extraordinary intellect or skill that is markedly superior to his or her peers.
*1840 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Colloquy of Monos and Una’:
*:At long intervals some master-minds appeared, looking upon each advance in practical science as a retro-gradation in the true utility.
* {{quote-book
, year=2003
, author=Steve Kemper
, title=Code Name Ginger: the Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World
, chapter=2
, isbn=1578516730
, page=34
, passage=His first outside hire wasn't an electronics whiz or a mechanical mastermind , but a young industrial designer, a creature hitherto unknown at DEKA.}}
A person responsible for the highest level of planning and execution of a major operation.
* {{quote-book
, year=2007
, author=Mark S. Hamm
, title=Terrorism as Crime: from Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond
, chapter=6
, isbn=0814736963
, page=196
, passage=The first was with none other than Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM), mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.}}
To act in the role of mastermind.
* {{quote-book
, year=2007
, author=Kevin Danaher et al.
, title=Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots
, isbn=0977825361
, page=136
, passage=It would later be revealed that the corporation contributed over a quarter of a million dollars to the effort—a whopping 93 percent of the total coffer—and hired a team of media and political experts to mastermind it.}}
As an adjective false
is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun mastermind is
a person with an extraordinary intellect or skill that is markedly superior to his or her peers.As a verb mastermind is
to act in the role of mastermind.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.}}