Mafia vs False - What's the difference?
mafia | false |
(specifically) An international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.
(by extension) Any organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime; .
A party game modelling a conflict between an informed minority (the mafia) and an uninformed majority (the innocents). Each player is secretly assigned a role within one of these teams, and the innocents attempt to identify the mafia members before they are all "murdered".
(an entity which attempts to control a specified arena).
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 mafia
is mafia, mob (organised crime unit).As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.mafia
English
(wikipedia Mafia)Alternative forms
* Maffia (less common)Proper noun
- Somehow he managed to upset the Russian Mafia .
Synonyms
* (organization of Sicilian origin) Cosa Nostra, mob * (any organized crime syndicate) mobDerived terms
* mafia * mafia state * Mafioso * MafiyaSee also
* Camorra * capo * godfather * goodfella * 'Ndrangheta * * Thuggee * Triad * Yakuza ----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.}}