Medley vs False - What's the difference?
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*:Thenne came the kyng of Irland and the kynge of the stryete marches to rescowe syre Tristram and sire Palomydes / There beganne a grete medle / & many knyghtes were smyten doune on bothe partyes / and alweyes sir launcelot spared sir Tristram / and he spared hym
:(Holland)
A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
:a fruit medley
*Addison
*:this medley of philosophy and war
*W. Walsh
*:Love is a medley of endearments, jars, / Suspicions, reconcilements, wars.
(music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
:They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.
(swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
A cloth of mixed colours.
:(Fuller)
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 medley
is .As a verb medley
is (music) to combine, to form a medley.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.medley
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(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.}}