Occasionally vs False - What's the difference?
occasionally | false |
From time to time; now and then; once in a while; irregularly; at infrequent intervals.
*1592 , Gabriel Harvey, "Fovre Letters", Miscellaneous Tracts , page 56
*:Were nothing els di?cour?ively in?erted (as ?ome little el?e occa?ionally pre?ented it ?elfe), what paper more currently fit for the bare?t mechanicall u?es,...
*1619 , John Richardson, John Toland, The canon of the New Testament Vindicated , page 30
*:I think it is plain, that Origen'', whatever Character he may have occa?ionally given of this Book, did not judge it any part of the ''Canon ...
*1639 , Henry Ainsworth, Annotations Upon the Five Books of Moses, the Book of the Psalmes and the Song of Songs , page 177.
*:God ?etteth no houres for the morning or evening ?acrifice because they may occa?ionally be changed.
* 1855 , Horace Mann, "On the Statistical Position of Religious Bodies in England and Wales," Journal of the Statistical Society of London , vol. 18, no. 2, p. 152,
* 1978 , Stephen R. Graubard, "Twenty Years of 'Daedalus'," Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , vol. 32, no. 3, p. 18,
* 2007 , Matt Gouras/AP, "
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 an adverb occasionally
is from time to time; now and then; once in a while; irregularly; at infrequent intervals.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.occasionally
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(en adverb)- Some perhaps worship only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally .
- The journal, more occasionally , has turned to what might be called "fashionable" themes.
Wildfires Rage in Montana," Time , 17 Aug,
- Flames could still be seen from town flaring up occasionally on a hill dotted with emergency vehicles.
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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.}}