Occasion vs False - What's the difference?
occasion | false |
A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
* Bible, Rom. vii. 11
* Waller
The time when something happens.
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, title= An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
Something which causes something else; a cause.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 130:
(obsolete) An occurrence or incident.
A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
*{{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times
, passage=In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire. }}
Need; requirement, necessity.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
* Jeremy Taylor
* Burke
A special event or function.
A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
* Spenser
To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.
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 occasion
is a favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.As a verb occasion
is to give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.occasion
English
Noun
(en noun)- Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me.
- I'll take the occasion which he gives to bring / Him to his death.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}
- it were too vile to say, and scarce to be beleeved, what we endured: but the occasion was our owne, for want of providence, industrie and government [...].
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- after we have served ourselves and our own occasions
- when my occasions took me into France
- Whose manner was, all passengers to stay, / And entertain with her occasions sly.
Verb
(en verb)- it is seen that the mental changes are occasioned by a change of polarity
Statistics
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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.}}