Waw vs False - What's the difference?
waw | false |
(obsolete, water) A (l).
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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 verb waw
is (obsolete) to stir; move; wave.As a noun waw
is (obsolete|water) a (l) or waw can be a wall or waw can be the twenty-seventh letter of the arabic alphabet:.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.waw
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wawen, .Etymology 2
From (etyl) wawe, .Noun
(en noun)- nigh it drawes / All passengers, that none from it can shift: / For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes, / They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes .
Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with Scots (m), (m).Alternative forms
* * (Scotland)Etymology 4
From (etyl) . * Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ** Last: ** Next:Anagrams
* English palindromes ----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.}}