Footing vs False - What's the difference?
footing | false |
A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
* Holder
A standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
* (1800-1859)
A relative condition; state.
* (1800-1859)
A tread; step; especially, measured tread.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
A footprint or footprints; tracks, someone's trail.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
*, I.38:
stability or balance when standing on one's feet
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
* Francis A. Corliss, Supreme Court, County of New York (p.111)
The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.
A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil. Simmonds.
(architecture, engineering) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.
(accounting) Double checking the numbers vertically.
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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 a noun footing
is a ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.As a verb footing
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.footing
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- In ascent, every step gained is a footing and help to the next.
- As soon as he had obtained a footing at court, the charms of his mannermade him a favorite.
- Lived on a footing of equality with nobles.
- Hark, I hear the footing of a man.
- The Monster swift as word, that from her went, / Went forth in hast, and did her footing trace.
- A man must doe as some wilde beasts, which at the entrance of their caves, will have no manner of footing seene.
Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal, passage=Terry lost his footing to allow Van Persie to race clear for Arsenal's fourth after 85 minutes before the Netherlands striker completed a second treble against Chelsea by hammering his third past Petr Cech deep into stoppage time.}}
- The auditing of the accounts, when the defendant was present, was nothing more than the examinings of the footings of the bookkeeper.
Derived terms
* footing beam * footing course * pay one's footingVerb
(head)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.}}