Leer vs False - What's the difference?
leer | false |
To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent.
To entice with a leer or leers.
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A significant side glance; a glance expressive of some passion, as malignity, amorousness, etc.; a sly or lecherous look.
An arch or affected glance or cast of countenance.
(obsolete) The cheek.
(obsolete) The face.
(obsolete) One's appearance; countenance.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Complexion; hue; blee; colour.
(obsolete) Flesh; skin.
The flank or loin.
Empty; unoccupied; clear.
Destitute; lacking; wanting.
Faint from lack of food; hungry.
Thin; faint.
Having no load or burden; free; without a rider.
Lacking sense or seriousness; trifling; frivolous.
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 leer
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.leer
English
Etymology 1
Exact development uncertain, but apparently from *. See below.Verb
(en verb)- To gild a face with smiles; and leer a man to ruin.
Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) ler, . More at (l), (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)- (Holinshed)
- a Rosalind of a better leer than you
Anagrams
* *Etymology 3
From (etyl) lere, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- a leer stomach
- (Gifford)
- a leer horse
- (Ben Jonson)
- leer words
Etymology 4
From (etyl) leren, from (etyl) . Related to (etyl) {{m, ang, l?r, , lore, learning, science, art of teaching, preaching, doctrine, study, precept, exhortation, advice, instigation, history, story, cunning }}. See lore.Etymology 5
See (lehr)false
English
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.}}