Laydown vs False - What's the difference?
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(usually, uncountable) The act of laying something down
*{{quote-book, 1992, T.S. Shuler et al., Polymer Modified Asphalt Binders, chapter=Design and Construction of Asphalt Concrete Using Polymer Modified Asphalt Binders
, passage=However, significant smoke was observed during laydown of this mixture. }}
(publishing) A physical mockup or layout of a page design
*{{quote-book, 2006, Susan Linnet Cox, Photo Styling
, passage=It was a week's worth of laydowns portraying the full line of athletic clothing for that season
(military) A pattern of deployment
*{{quote-book, 1984, Ashton B. Carter et al., Ballistic Missile Defense
, passage=The offense could contrive a variety of laydowns to intensify the defense's problems.}}
(bridge) A hand which is so strong that the declarer can simply expose it and claim the number of tricks required by his or her contract
*{{quote-news, 2008, December 26, Phillip Alder, Set the Toys Aside and Listen to What the Cards Are Saying, The New York Times
, passage=North-South rested in five spades, with grand slams in spades and clubs laydown .}}
(fishing) A tree fallen in water, where anglers might target fish
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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
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 laydown
is (usually|uncountable) the act of laying something down.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.laydown
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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.}}