Fiscal vs False - What's the difference?
fiscal | false |
Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
(proscribed) Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial.
A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.
(British, Scottish law) Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor.
(legal) In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
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 adjectives the difference between fiscal and false
is that fiscal is related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun fiscal
is a public official in certain countries having control of public revenue or fiscal can be any of various african shrikes of the genus lanius .fiscal
English
(wikipedia fiscal)Etymology 1
From (etyl) fiscal, from (etyl) – see (fiscus) and (fisc).Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* Not to be confused with (financial), which refers to money generally, particularly lending and banking, rather than narrowly to a treasury.Noun
(en noun)See also
* finance, financialEtymology 2
After (etyl)See also
* (Lanius) * (Lanius) ----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.}}