Flay vs False - What's the difference?
flay | false |
To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
To frighten; scare; terrify.
To be fear-stricken.
A fright; a scare.
Fear; a source of fear; a formidable matter; a fearsome or repellent-looking individual.
to strip skin off
to lash
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 flay
is to cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening) or flay can be to strip skin off.As a noun flay
is a fright; a scare.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.flay
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) flayen, flaien, fleien, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (Yorkshire) * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) flean from (etyl) .Verb
Synonyms
* (remove the skin of) fleece, flense, skinAnagrams
*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.}}