Hind vs False - What's the difference?
hind | false |
Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
* 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old.
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A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus .
(archaic) A servant, especially an agricultural labourer.
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*:Attilius Regulus .
* 1827 , Maria Elizabeth Budden,
* 1931 , Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth :
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 hind and false
is that hind is located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts) while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun hind
is a female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old or hind can be (archaic) a servant, especially an agricultural labourer.hind
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Adjective
- When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
Derived terms
* hind legEtymology 2
(Epinephelus) (etyl) (m), from (etyl), from a formation on (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)- Nature binds all creatures to love their young ones; an hen to preserve her brood will run upon a lion, an hind will fight with a bull, a sow with a bear, a silly sheep with a fox.
Synonyms
* (female deer) doeEtymology 3
(etyl) , in the phrase h?na fæder'' ‘paterfamilias’. The ''-d'' is a later addition (compare ''sound ).Noun
(en noun)Nina, An Icelandic Tale, page 41:
- The peaceful tenour of Nina's life was interrupted one morning by the mysterious looks and whisperings of her maids and hinds .
- that my brother can sit at leisure in a seat and learn something and I must work like a hind , who am your son as well as he!
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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.}}