Harvest vs False - What's the difference?
harvest | false |
The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
The process of harvesting, gathering the ripened crop.
The yield of harvesting, i.e. the gathered crops or fruits.
* 1911 , (Jack London), The Whale Tooth
*:The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest' of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the ' harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.
* Shakespeare
(by extension) The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
* Fuller
* Wordsworth
(paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=20 To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
To be occupied bringing in a harvest
To win, achieve a gain.
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 harvest
is the third season of the year; autumn; fall.As a verb harvest
is to bring in a harvest; reap; glean.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.harvest
English
(wikipedia harvest)Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)- This year's cotton harvest''' was great but the corn '''harvest was disastrous.
- To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.
- The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.
- the harvest of a quiet eye
citation, passage=Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.}}
Synonyms
* (season of the year) autumn, fall * (horti- or agricultural yield) cropVerb
(en verb)- ''Harvesting is a stressing, thirsty occupation
- ''The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21
Derived terms
* harvestable * harvestability * harvester * harvest bug * harvest fish * harvest fly * harvest home * harvest louse * harvestman * harvest mite * harvest moon * harvest mouse * harvest queen * harvest spider * harvest timefalse
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.}}