Intestine vs False - What's the difference?
intestine | false |
(anatomy, often pluralized) The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.
One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings.
Domestic; taking place within a given country or region.
* 1615 , Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia , Richmond 1957, p.2:
* 1776 , (Edward Gibbon), The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , ch.1,
(obsolete) Internal.
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* Milton
* Hume
(obsolete, rare) Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.
* Cudworth
(obsolete, rare) Shut up; enclosed.
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 intestine and false
is that intestine is domestic; taking place within a given country or region while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun intestine
is (anatomy|often pluralized) the alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.intestine
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(wikipedia intestine)Etymology 1
From (etyl) , as Etymology 2, below.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bowel * gut * tharmDerived terms
* intestinal * gastrointestinal * large intestine * small intestineSee also
* entrail * innard * colonEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
(-)- It being true that now after fiue yeeres intestine warre with the reuengefull implacable Indians, a firme peace (not againe easily to be broken) hath bin lately concluded.
- Yet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.
- When you have alleaged all the reasons you can, and beleeved all to disavow and reject her, she produceth, contrarie to your discourses, so intestine inclination, that you have small hold against her.
- Hoping here to end / Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued.
- an intestine strugglebetween authority and liberty
- Everything labours under an intestine necessity.
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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.}}