Palpitate vs False - What's the difference?
palpitate | false |
To beat strongly or rapidly; said especially of the heart.
To cause to beat strongly or rapidly.
To shake tremulously
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, I was now so bruised, so batter'd, so spent with this over-match, that I could hardly stir, or raise myself, but lay palpitating }}
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, chapter=2 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 verb palpitate
is to beat strongly or rapidly; said especially of the heart.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.palpitate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- When he just looks at me, my heart begins to palpitate with excitement.
- The allergy medicine palpitates my heart.
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Synonyms
* (to beat rapidly) flutter, pound, throb * (to shake tremulously) quiver, tremble, vibrateDerived terms
* palpitant * palpitationfalse
English
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.}}