Vagrant vs False - What's the difference?
vagrant | false |
A person without a home or job.
* 2002 , ,
A wanderer.
(ornithology) A bird found outside its species’ usual range.
Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
* Prior
* Macaulay
Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation.
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 adjectives the difference between vagrant and false
is that vagrant is moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun vagrant
is a person without a home or job.vagrant
English
(wikipedia vagrant)Noun
(en noun)WIGU: Day two begins
- Paisley: What smells like dinosaur crap?
- Mother: Your brother wants people to think we’re vagrants .
- Wigu: I stink.
- Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighborhood begging for food.
Synonyms
* beggar * down-and-out * drifter * itinerant * tramp * wanderer * vagabond * See alsoDerived terms
* vagrancyAdjective
(en adjective)- That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took.
- While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in love.
- a vagrant beggar
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.}}