Haven vs False - What's the difference?
haven | false |
A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
(by extension) A place of safety; a refuge or sanctuary.
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, date=December 21
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, title=Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis
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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 noun haven
is a harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.As a verb haven
is to put into, or provide with a haven.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.haven
English
Noun
(en noun)- what shipping and what lading's in our haven
- their haven under the hill
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Synonyms
* refuge * sanctuary * zoarDerived terms
* tax havenAnagrams
* ----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.}}