False vs Sliver - What's the difference?
false | sliver |
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.
A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
* 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.
*:A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).
A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
(US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
* Sir Walter Scott
As an adjective false
is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun sliver is
a long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.As a verb sliver is
to cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.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.}}
Synonyms
* * See alsoAntonyms
* (untrue) real, trueDerived terms
* false attack * false dawn * false friend * falsehood * falseness * falsify * falsityAnagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----sliver
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (long piece cut or rent off) shard, slice, splinterVerb
(en verb)- to sliver wood
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- They'll sliver thee like a turnip.
