Insufflate vs False - What's the difference?
insufflate | false |
To breathe or blow into or on.
(medicine) To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.
(medicine) To inhale (a powder etc.).
* 2001': Cocaine is usually taken by '''insufflating the white powdered cocaine sulphate into the nose, which leads to rapid absorption of the drug into the bloodstream. — Leslie Iversen, ''Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 98)
(ecclesiastical) To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.
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 verb insufflate
is to breathe or blow into or on.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.insufflate
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* (to inhale) snortfalse
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(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.}}