Moonwake vs False - What's the difference?
moonwake | false |
The reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
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 noun moonwake
is the reflection of moonlight on a body of water.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.moonwake
English
Noun
(en noun)- I was long puzzled to know why this moonwake always followed as I walked ...'' — Daniel A. Goodsell, ''Nature and Character at Granite Bay , 1901
- And they grew and brightened and gathered; and whiles together they ran. Like the moonwake over the waters; and whiles they were scant and wan, ...'' — William Morris, ''The Story of Sigurd the Volsung , 1922
- Mariners sometimes call the moving path of light leading to the moon the ''moonwake'' , because it looks like the white wash of a ship's wake.'' — The Atlantic, ''Word Fugitives , March, 2006
Synonyms
* moongladefalse
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.}}