Opposition vs False - What's the difference?
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The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
An opposite or contrasting position.
An opponent in some form of competition.
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, title= (astronomy) The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth.
(senseid)(politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
(legal) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent.
(chess) A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king.
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 opposition
is the opposition, political opposition; opposition party.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.opposition
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Noun
(en noun)Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition .}}
Antonyms
* appositionExternal links
* (wikipedia) ----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.}}