Munition vs False - What's the difference?
munition | false |
(usually plural) Armament, weaponry.
* 1918 , Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
(military, NATO) Bombs, rockets, missiles.
(rare, obsolete) A tower or fortification.
* 1610 , Douay-Rheims Bible, Habacuc 2:1
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 munition
is ammunition, munition.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.munition
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Noun
(en noun)Book 7.:
- Just as we can say that an English girl who leaves the narrow circle of her old life, and goes into a munition factory and joins a union and takes part in its debates, will never after be a docile home-slave; so we can say that the clergyman who helps in Y. M. C. A. work in France, or in Red Cross organization in America, will be less the bigot and formalist forever after.
- I wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition : and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.
false
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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.}}