Jettison vs False - What's the difference?
jettison | false |
(uncountable) Collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
(countable) The action of jettisoning items.
To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective; discard.
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 jettison
is (uncountable) collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.As a verb jettison
is to eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.jettison
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (items jettisoned): jetsamVerb
(en verb)- The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.
- The jettisoning of fuel tanks .
Synonyms
* (to let go or get rid of as being useless) chuck, discard, ditch, dump, junk, lose, scrap, toss * See alsofalse
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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.}}