Pharming vs False - What's the difference?
pharming | false |
The use of genetic engineering to alter an animal or plant in order to make it produce a pharmaceutical or similar product
(computing) The redirection of traffic for one website to another, with intent to deceive
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 pharming
is the use of genetic engineering to alter an animal or plant in order to make it produce a pharmaceutical or similar product or pharming can be (computing) the redirection of traffic for one website to another, with intent to deceive.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.pharming
English
Etymology 1
from pharmaceutical + farmingNoun
(-)Synonyms
* biofarming, biopharmingEtymology 2
By extension, from phishingNoun
(wikipedia pharming) (-)false
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.}}