Letterbox vs False - What's the difference?
letterbox | false |
(film) Transferred to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, having black bars above and below the picture area.
A collection point for mail intended for onward delivery, a secure box or receptacle for this purpose.
A delivery point for mail, a box, compartment or slot for this purpose.
(film) To transfer a widescreen motion picture to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, with the placing of black bars above and below the picture area.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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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 letterbox and false
is that letterbox is (film) transferred to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, having black bars above and below the picture area while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun letterbox
is a collection point for mail intended for onward delivery, a secure box or receptacle for this purpose.As a verb letterbox
is (film) to transfer a widescreen motion picture to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, with the placing of black bars above and below the picture area.letterbox
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* letter boxAdjective
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(letterboxes)Synonyms
* (collection and delivery point) mailbox * (collection point) post box * (collection point) (UK) pillar box * (delivery point) (US) mail slotExternal links
* (collection) (Post box) * (delivery point) (Letter box)Verb
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*false
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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.}}