Masticate vs False - What's the difference?
masticate | false |
To chew (food).
To grind or knead something into a pulp.
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 verb masticate
is to chew (food).As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.masticate
English
Verb
(masticat)- The cow stood, quietly masticating its cud.
Quotations
{{timeline, 1800s=1832 1892 1896, 1900s=1927}} * 1832 — , ch. 4 *: The fat boy rose, opened his eyes, swallowed the huge piece of pie he had been in the act of masticating when he last fell asleep, and slowly obeyed his master’s orders. * 1892 — , ch. 12 *: 'By tasting it, to be sure,' said I, masticating a morsel that Kory-Kory had just put in my mouth. * 1896 — , ch. 8 *: He resumed his meal. "I had no idea of it," he said, and masticated . * 1927-1929'— *: The vegetables were not to be cooked but merely grated fine, if I could not masticate them. * 2001 - , The Pickup *: The friends watch the two make their way between other habitué's masticating , drinking, crouched in a scrum of conversation...''See also
* mastic * masticable * mastication * masticator * masticatoryAnagrams
* English transitive verbs ----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.}}