Peds vs False - What's the difference?
peds | false |
(medicine, informal) Pediatric medicine, pediatric nursing, and so on; a medical or other specialty dealing with child patients.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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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 peds
is (medicine|informal) pediatric medicine, pediatric nursing, and so on; a medical or other specialty dealing with child patients.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.peds
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(-)Usage notes
* This term is very often used attributively, in phrases like peds nurse'' (a nurse whose patients are children), ''peds patient'' (a child patient), ''peds case (a medical case in which the patient is a child; or, by extension, the patient himself), and so on.Anagrams
*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.}}
