Ingrain vs False - What's the difference?
ingrain | false |
To make something deeply part of something else, either literally or figuratively.
Dyed with grain, or kermes.
Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
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 ingrain and false
is that ingrain is dyed with grain, or kermes while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a verb ingrain
is to make something deeply part of something else, either literally or figuratively.As a noun ingrain
is an ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.ingrain
English
Verb
(en verb)- The dirt was deeply ingrained in the carpet.
- The lessons I learned at school were firmly ingrained in my mind.
Synonyms
* radicate * breed in the boneAdjective
(-)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.}}