Lexicographer vs False - What's the difference?
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one who writes or compiles a dictionary
* 1755 A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — , lexicographer, in his seminal dictionary
* 1811 Pitt has furnish'd us a word or two / Which lexicographers declined to do. — , Hints from Horace
* 1860 The best lexicographer may well be content if his productions are received by the world with cold esteem. — , Biographies contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica
* To the lexicographer, God is simply the word that comes next to go-cart -
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 lexicographer
is one who writes or compiles a dictionary.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.lexicographer
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(wikipedia lexicographer)Noun
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* dictionarianfalse
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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.}}