Jennifer vs False - What's the difference?
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* 1906 , The Doctor's Dilemma , Act I:
* 1960 , The Hunt for Richard Thorpe , Doubleday, page 10:
* 2000 , Nothing Gold Can Stay , Dutton, ISBN 0525945598, page 131:
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 proper noun jennifer
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.jennifer
English
Alternative forms
* JeniferProper noun
(en proper noun)- RIDGEON. Thats a wonderful drawing. Why is it called Jennifer ?
- MRS DUBEDAT. My name is Jennifer .
- RIDGEON. A strange name.
- MRS DUBEDAT. Not in Cornwall. I am Cornish. It's only what you call Guinevere.
- "Most people's sisters have decent names like Jennifer or Jane or something. What did you say hers was?"
- Jennifer . Jenny with the light brown hair. Jenny-fair, their high school French teacher had called her, and fair she had been.
Usage notes
The name was mostly used in Cornwall before the 20th century. It became popular in all English-speaking countries, first in UK in the 1950s, and then in US as the top name for women born in 1970-1984.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.}}