Maven vs False - What's the difference?
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(chiefly, US) An expert in a given field.
* 2002 , Joseph H. Boyett, Jimmie T. Boyett, The Guru Guide to Marketing ,
* 2006 January 23, Virginia Robbins, Opinion: Eight Steps to Leadership'', '' ,
* 2010 , Rachel Davis Mersey, Can Journalism Be Saved?: Rediscovering America's Appetite for News ,
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 proper noun maven
is (nasa|space) a space probe designed to investigate the martian climate.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.maven
English
(wikipedia maven)Noun
(en noun)- Pam is a coffee maven ; she knows so much about coffee.
page 207,
- Connectors know people—lots of people. Mavens' know about things. They know, or find out first, what is going on. Connectors, says Gladwell, need ' mavens to tell them what to buzz about.
page 19,
- Besides an executive sponsor, you need to find a technology maven', someone within the company who understands the new technology. A '''maven''', as defined in Malcolm Gladwell?s ''The Tipping Point'', is a person who has both information and the social skills to pass it along. The challenge in a situation such as this one is that the ' maven might be outside of IT.
page 118,
- The goal for any media company is to be a maven —and therefore highly adept at using multiple channels of social media communication well.
Derived terms
* media mavenfalse
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Adjective
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