Masthead vs False - What's the difference?
masthead | false |
(nautical) The top of a mast.
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*:In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost simultaneously with the vessel’s leaving her port; even though she may have fifteen thousand miles, and more, to sail ere reaching her proper cruising ground.
(US) A list of a newspaper or other periodical's main staff, contributing writers, publisher, circulation, advertising rates etc.
(UK) The title (normally in a large and distinctive font) of a newspaper at the top of the front page
(nautical) To send to the masthead as a punishment.
* 2009 , Gregory Fremont-Barnes, Nelson's Officers and Midshipmen (page 30)
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 noun masthead
is (nautical) the top of a mast.As a verb masthead
is (nautical|transitive) to send to the masthead as a punishment.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.masthead
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- (Marryat)
- When the ship happened to be in a warm climate, mastheading constituted a fairly mild punishment; indeed, many regarded it as rather a relief from duty. But in inclement weather the experience was most unpleasant.
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.}}