Pocketbook vs False - What's the difference?
pocketbook | false |
(US) A woman's purse.
(figuratively) One's personal budget or economic capacity - the amount one can afford.
(rare) A small book, especially one that can fit in a pocket; a paperback; also a pocket book.
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(British) A notebook that is small enough to fit in a pocket.
:* The police officer recorded all the salient information in his pocketbook at the time of the incident .
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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 pocketbook
is (us) a woman's purse.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.pocketbook
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''The publishers brought out small format pocketbook s of the whole of their nature series'.
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.}}