Nadir vs False - What's the difference?
nadir | false |
The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.
* 1638 , Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique :
(figuratively) The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
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* 1950 , Elizabeth Janeway, in Helen Hull (editor), The Writer’s Book :
(astronomy) The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.
(beekeeping, archaic) An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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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 proper noun nadir
is a male given name.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.nadir
English
Noun
(en noun)- The seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe.
- In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year’s end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets.
- The nadir of the sun is the axis of the shadow projected by the Earth.
References
* 1860 , Henry Taylor, The Beekeepers Manual , page 24.Synonyms
* (lowest point) lowest ebb, slough of despond, troughAntonyms
* (point of heavens opposite the zenith) zenith * (lowest point) height, peak * (beekeeping) duplet, superAnagrams
* ----false
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.}}