Neap vs False - What's the difference?
neap | false |
Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide.
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To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
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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 adjectives the difference between neap and false
is that neap is designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun neap
is the tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals or neap can be .As a verb neap
is to trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.neap
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Etymology 1
Perhaps of Scandinavian origin: compare dialectal Norwegian .Etymology 2
(etyl) .Adjective
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(en verb)Etymology 3
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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.}}