Forth vs False - What's the difference?
forth | false |
Forward in time, place or degree.
* Shakespeare
* Strype
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, title= Out into view; from a particular place or position.
(obsolete) Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Thoroughly; from beginning to end.
(obsolete) Forth from; out of.
* John Donne
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 proper noun forth
is a river in scotland that flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from the trossachs through stirling to the firth of forth on the north sea or forth can be an imperative, stack-based high-level programming language.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.forth
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . Compare Dutch voort.Adverb
(-)- From this time forth , I never will speak word.
- I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bade me say forth ; I said I was taught no more.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- The plants in spring put forth leaves.
- The robbers leapt forth from their place of concealment.
- I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.
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Derived terms
* forth- * and so forth * back and forth * blossom forth * bring forth * burst forth * call forth * come forth * give forth * go forth * hold forth * pour forth * put forth * send forth * set forth * stand forth * stretch forthPreposition
(English prepositions)- Some forth their cabins peep.
Etymology 2
From (fourth) - compare (forty)Adjective
(head)Noun
(head)Statistics
*Anagrams
* ----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.}}