Firefly vs False - What's the difference?
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Any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight.
* 2000 , Exploring Life Science , 2: Bats—Cave Life, Marshall Cavendish,
* 2004 , B. V. David, T. N. Ananthakrishnan, Chapter 20: Bioluminescence'', ''General and Applied Entomology , Tata McGraw-Hill, 2nd Edition,
* 2007 , Lars Olof Björn, Helen Ghiradella, 23: Bioluminescence'', Lars Olof Björn (editor), ''Photobiology: The Science of Life and Light , Springer, 2nd Edition,
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(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 noun firefly
is any beetle of the family lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.firefly
English
(wikipedia firefly) (Lampyridae)Noun
page 96,
- Fireflies' are the best-known insects that produce light.Many ' fireflies use their light to communicate, particularly at mating time when males and females have to get together.
page 130,
- The luciferins are different in different species and today both the luciferin and luciferase in the firefly are available in the crystalline form.
page 607,
- Various other luciferase genes, especially the firefly' luciferase gene, are also used for the study of gene regulation.The classic use of bioluminescence, however, is the use of a luciferin-luciferase mixture from ' fireflies as an assay for ATP.
Synonyms
* (beetle) lightning bugSee also
* glowwormfalse
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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.}}