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outback | false |

As adjectives the difference between outback and false

is that outback is characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of australia; very remote from urban areas while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.

As a noun outback

is (australia) the most remote and desolate areas of australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.

As an adverb outback

is to or towards the most remote and desolate areas of australia.

outback

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (Australia) The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.
  • * 1951' June, W. J. Banks, ''Flying Doctors of the '''Outback'' , ''The Rotarian , page 23,
  • Communication like this is making a big change in the lives of Australia?s “outback ” people.
  • * 2000 , Shirley W. Gray, Australia , page 31,
  • In the outback , many people live and work on sheep and cattle ranches.
  • * 2002 , Erinn Banting. Australia: The People , page 20,
  • The outback ?s rich, red soil looked like blood because of all the iron in it, and the vast land was so still and barren that it seemed lifeless.
  • * 2010 , Lonely Planet, BBC Earth, The Traveller?s Guide to Planet Earth , page 129,
  • Astronomers consider the outback area around Alice Springs — with its low pollution, low humidity and few light sources — to be among the best star-gazing locations on earth.

    Synonyms

    * (the) bush

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of Australia; very remote from urban areas.
  • * 1964 , Western Australian Parliament, Parliamentary Debates , page 3081,
  • the Civil Service Association is not particularly happy with the decision of the Government in regard to rents and the way they will be levied on its members in the more outback country areas.
  • * 1996 , David H. Bayley, Police for the Future , page 70,
  • In the Northern Territory, arguably the most outback of Australian states, police are still not armed.
  • * 2002 , Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Australia: Handbook , page 215,
  • From Bathurst the Mitchell Highway heads northwest through Dubbo and Bourke Nyngan then continues for almost 200 km to the most outback of towns Bourke.
  • * 2008 , Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses , Easyread Large Edition, page 135,
  • We had a frosty meeting and he took me around to the AML&F Co?s staff officer, requesting a jackaroo position for me on the company?s most outback station in Queensland.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia.
  • * 1953 , Western Australian Parliament, Parliamentary Debates , page 241,
  • If we want this country to develop, we have to depend on men who are prepared to go outback and try to discover new shows.
  • * 1984 , Australian Senate, Parliamentary Debates: Senate Weekly Hansard , Volume 3, page 1474,
  • This has allowed Australians really to go outback in some reasonable comfort to see the attractions of this country.
  • * 2012 , Andy Hughes, A Ringer?s Hands , page 10,
  • Like me, the son was inspired to go outback , and when things went wrong for him the desert seemed like the perfect place to perish and decay, to get blown around on the wind.

    See also

    * back o' Bourke, back of beyond, bush

    Anagrams

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    false

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
  • , title= 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.}}
  • 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.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of two options on a true-or-false test.
  • Synonyms

    * * See also

    Antonyms

    * (untrue) real, true

    Derived terms

    * false attack * false dawn * false friend * falsehood * falseness * falsify * falsity

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You play me false .

    Anagrams

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