Phaser vs False - What's the difference?
phaser | false |
(music) An electronic device that produces special effects on the sound produced by an electric guitar etc.
(science fiction) Fictional energy weapon, with multiple settings for degree of intensity, from the television series Star Trek (1966–69).
*{{quote-video
, year = 1966
, people = (writer)
, date = September 8
, series =
, title =
, season = 1
, number = 1
, passage = Captain James Kirk: "Set your phaser on one quarter. I'll leave mine on stun."
}}
*{{quote-magazine
, year = 1995
, magazine =
, date = July
, page = 21
, passage = His oddly reserved nature stands out [...]. Whyte sets his phaser on stun, not kill.
}}
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*{{quote-book
, year = 2004
, title = Hertiage Signature Auction 811
, page = 185
, passage = Giolitti's Gold Key art is widely admired, [...] and this is a terrific opportunity to pick up a page—set your phasers on bid.
}}
*{{quote-book
, year = 2009
, title = China Lake
, first = Meg
, last = Gardiner
, authorlink = Meg Gardiner
, isbn = 9780451224552
, passage = I said, "Set phasers on be-a-bastard."
}}
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= 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.
As a noun phaser
is (music) an electronic device that produces special effects on the sound produced by an electric guitar etc.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.phaser
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Noun
(en noun)See also
(science fiction energy weapon) * beam cannon / beam weapon * blaster / blaster cannon / blaster gun / blaster pistol / blaster rifle * death ray / death ray projector * laser / laser cannon / laser gun / laser pistol / laser rifle / laser weapon * particle cannon / particle gun / particle rifle / particle weapon * ray gunAnagrams
*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.}}