Maw vs False - What's the difference?
maw | false |
(archaic) the stomach, especially of an animal
* 1667 , , Paradise Lost, Book X
the upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a ravenous creature.
* 1818 , , Endymion
any great, insatiable or perilous opening.
Appetite; inclination.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
:
*
*: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.
:
Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
:
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
:
*(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 maw
is (archaic) the stomach, especially of an animal or maw can be (dialect|colloquial) mother or maw can be a gull.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.maw
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mawe, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw .
- To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw
- Unless you had more maw to do me good.
Etymology 2
By shortening of motherEtymology 3
See .Anagrams
* ----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.}}