Spice vs False - What's the difference?
spice | false |
(countable, uncountable) Plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
(figurative, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.
(uncountable, Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
(obsolete) Species; kind.
* Wyclif Bible, 1 Thessalonians v. 22
* Sir T. Elyot
To add spice or spices to.
(nonce word)
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
:
*
*: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.
:
Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
:
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
:
*(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 spice
is (countable|uncountable) plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food or spice can be (nonce word).As a verb spice
is to add spice or spices to.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.spice
English
(wikipedia spice)Etymology 1
From (etyl) espice (modern .Noun
- Abstain you from all evil spice .
- Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices . The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative.
Hyponyms
* See alsoHypernyms
* seasoningCoordinate terms
* herbDerived terms
* allspice * five-spice powder * herbs and spices * spiceberry * spicebush * spicery * spice up * spiciness * spicy * spicy tooth * variety is the spice of lifeVerb
(spic)Derived terms
* spice upEtymology 2
Formed by analogy with (mice) as the plural of (mouse) by .Noun
(head)References
*Anagrams
* English irregular plurals ----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.}}
