Mustang vs False - What's the difference?
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A small, hardy, naturalized (feral) horse of the North American west.
* 1846 , , The Mysteries of the Backwoods , Carey and Hart, page
* 1851 , , The Scalp Hunters; Or, Romantic Adventures in Northern Mexico , vol. 3, Charles J. Skeet, page
A merchant marine who joined the U.S. Navy as a commissioned]] officer during the [[w:American Civil War, American Civil War.
* 1903 , James Hoyt (editor), Seen & Heard by Megargee , L.N. Megargee, page
* 1939 , Fred J. Buenzle, Bluejacket , W. W. Norton & Company, page
A commissioned officer who started military service as an enlisted person.
* 1918 , Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook , volume 120 (September–December 1918), Outlook Publishing Company, page
* 1943 , Josef Israels, He's in the Marine Corps Now , R.M. McBride & Company, page
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 mustang
is a small, hardy, naturalized (feral) horse of the north american west.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.mustang
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Noun
(en noun)12:
- The mustang pony, the invariable companion of the inhabitant of the prairie, whether he is rich or poor, is a little creature, apparently narrow-chested, and small across the loins.
145:
- Having ridden a distance of two or three miles, Garey slackened his pace, and put the mustang to a slow walk.
1754:
- He is a product of the merchant marine and is one of the officers called "Mustang s" who entered the navy during the Civil War.
179:
- He was the son of a famous artist, and was what we termed a "mustang " officer, who had come into the navy from the merchant service during the Civil War.
417:
- … and the chief engineer is a "mustang" — that is, an officer who has risen from the ranks of enlisted men.
170:
- Mustang — Officer who came up through the ranks. None better.
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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.}}