Frit vs False - What's the difference?
frit | false |
To add to a glass or ceramic mixture
To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
(UK, dialect, Lincolnshire) frightened
* 1983 April 19, [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher]:
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 adjectives the difference between frit and false
is that frit is (uk|dialect|lincolnshire) frightened while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun frit
is a fused mixture of materials used to make glass.As a verb frit
is to add to a glass or ceramic mixture.frit
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) fritte, from .Verb
(fritt)- (Ure)
See also
* frit awayEtymology 2
Adjective
(en adjective)- The right hon. Gentleman is afraid of an election is he? Oh, if I were going to cut and run I'd have gone after the Falklands. Afraid? Frightened? Frit ? Couldn't take it? Couldn't stand it?
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.}}