Homonym vs False - What's the difference?
homonym | false |
(semantics, strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning.
(loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning, technically called a (homophone) (same sound) or a (homograph) (same spelling).
(taxonomy) A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.
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 homonym
is homonym (word with the same sound or spelling but different meaning).As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.homonym
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(en noun)Usage notes
* Homonyms (in the looser sense) are divided into the two overlapping subcategories homographs and homophones. Examples: ** (die) and (dye) (homophones but not homographs) ** the (parasitic) (flatworm) called a (fluke) and (fluke), part of the tail of a whale (both homophones and homographs and therefore true homonyms in the strict sense) ** the metal (lead) and the present tense of the verb (lead) (homographs but not homophones)See also
(en) English abstract nouns ----false
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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.}}
