Installment vs False - What's the difference?
installment | false |
The act of installing; installation.
(obsolete) The seat in which one is placed.
A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times (often equal namely regular, e.g. mensual) being often definitely stipulated.
a part of a broadcast or published serial.
anything that is performed in parts, spread in time
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 installment
is the act of installing; installation or installment can be a portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times (often equal namely regular, eg mensual) being often definitely stipulated.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.installment
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Alternative forms
* instalment (Commonwealth)Etymology 1
From install, itself from (etyl) installer, from installare, from (etyl) in- + ML stallum 'stall' (from Germanic stal, see below)Noun
(en noun)- Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment , to do impartial justice by law. Milton.
- The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . . Each fair installment , coat, and several crest With loyal blazon, evermore be blest. Shakespeare.
Synonyms
* investiture, investment * installationEtymology 2
A 1732 alteration of (estallment), from (etyl) : The sense of "part of a whole produced in advance of the rest" is from 1823.Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
For this sense in the UK, the OED permits only the spelling instalment . Commonwealth usage varies.Synonyms
* (portion of a debt) * (part of a broadcast or published serial) episode, partReferences
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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.}}