Littoral vs False - What's the difference?
littoral | false |
Of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore.
A shore.
* 1921 , Sir Charles Eliot
The zone of a coast between high tide and low tide levels.
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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(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 littoral and false
is that littoral is of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun littoral
is a shore.littoral
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(wikipedia)Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(-)Usage notes
Specifically refers to the water at the shore, rather than the land, particularly in the phrase littoral zone.Quotations
"During his tenure, 'From the Sea' became the Navy-Marine Corps joint strategic concept, wherein the Navy and Marine Corps reoriented doctrinal focus toward littoral warfare." ? Semper Fidelis Memorandum for Retired Marines, Volume 58, No. 2Synonyms
* (relating to the seashore) intertidalCoordinate terms
* coastalNoun
(en noun)- ...these Chams belonged to the Malay-Polynesian group and their distribution along the littoral suggests that they were invaders from the sea...
citation, passage=The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.}}
citation, passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}
Synonyms
* (zone between high- and low-tide) intertidal zone, foreshoreDerived terms
* circumlittoral * infralittoral * sublittoral * supralittoralReferences
Anagrams
* ----false
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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.}}