Fifth vs False - What's the difference?
fifth | false |
The ordinal form of the number five.
The person or thing in the fifth position.
One of five equal parts of a whole.
The fifth gear of an engine.
A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of a gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters.
The musical interval between one note and another five tones higher.
The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
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 proper noun fifth
is the fifth amendment.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.fifth
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(wikipedia fifth)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* ; (in names of monarchs and popes ) VNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (one of five equal parts)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.}}