Martian vs False - What's the difference?
martian | false |
(astrology) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mars; aggressive, bellicose.
(obsolete) Pertaining to war or battle; military.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
Of or relating to the planet Mars or its imagined inhabitants.
* 2004 , Mark Pilkington, The Guardian , 8 Jan 2004:
(science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Mars.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-24, volume=408, issue=8850, magazine=(The Economist), author=Bagehot
, title= 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 adjectives the difference between martian and false
is that martian is (astronomy) , "of or pertaining to the planet mars" while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.martian
English
Adjective
(-)- The judges, which thereto selected were, / Into the Martian field adowne descended / To deeme this doutfull case, for which they all contended.
- She claimed her astral body was transported to the planet, so she was able to draw detailed Martian landscapes and to speak and write its language.
Derived terms
* Martianism * Martian poetry * Martian blueberry * Martian spheruleNoun
(wikipedia Martian) (en noun)Go away, we need you, passage=A Martian' who landed in Britain in the past few weeks—assuming he managed to get a visa—would take it for a place that dislikes visitors.
Synonyms
*See also
* little green man * Venusian * Terran * JovianAnagrams
* *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.}}