Nerd vs False - What's the difference?
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A person who is intellectual but generally introverted
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One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.
An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(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 nerd
is nerd (a person, often very studious, with poor social skills).As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.nerd
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Alternative forms
* nurd (very rare)Noun
(en noun)"Businessman's Lunch", a play by Micheal Quinn, in Patricia Brown, Gloria Mundi
- They particularly enjoy making fun of one of their fellows who is not present, whom they consider a hopeless nerd – until, that is, they learn he is engaged to marry the boss's daughter.
- a computer nerd
- a comic-book nerd
- Only a nerd would wear yellow and blue stripes with green pants
- Nerds seem to have fun with each other, but in a way that causes others to laugh AT them.
- Why are you hanging out with that nerd ?
Synonyms
* (sense) dag (Australian), doofus, dork, dweeb, geek, goober, loser, propeller head, twerp, * See alsoDerived terms
* arachnerd * cybernerd * entreprenerd * millionerd * nerdboy * nerdbrain * nerdcore * nerdette * nerdfest * nerdgasm * Nerdic * nerdification * nerdify * nerdiness * nerdish * nerdism * nerdistan * nerdlet * nerdlike * nerdling * nerdlinger * nerdo * nerdom/nerddom * nerd out * nerdsome * nerdspeak * nerdtastic * nerdvana * nerdy * technonerdReferences
*Online Etymology Dictionary
External links
* (wikipedia) * (commonslite)Anagrams
* English terms with unknown etymologies ----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.}}