Millet vs False - What's the difference?
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Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
(historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
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* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, page 262:
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(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 millet
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.millet
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m); ultimately from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(-)Hyponyms
* (food grains)Coordinate terms
*Derived terms
* barnyard millet * broom corn millet * browntop millet * common millet * finger millet * foxtail millet * Guinea millet * hog millet * Japanese millet * kodo millet * little millet * milletgrass, millet grass * pearl millet * proso millet * white milletExternal links
* ("millet" on Wikipedia) * (Millet)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 14:
- in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.
- Christians and Jews as People of the Book were organized into separate communities, or millets , defined by their common practice of the same religion, which was guaranteed as protected as long as it was primarily practised in private.
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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.}}