Origin vs False - What's the difference?
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The beginning of something.
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
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, title= (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
(cartography) An arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
(in the plural) Ancestry.
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 a noun origin
is the beginning of something.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.origin
English
Noun
(en noun)Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}
Synonyms
* (source) source * (mathematics) zero vectorAntonyms
* (source) destination * (anatomy) insertionSee also
* provenanceExternal links
* *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.}}
