Poise vs False - What's the difference?
poise | false |
(obsolete) Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.
That which causes a balance; a counterweight.
* Dryden
A state of balance, equilibrium or stability
composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation
mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body
A condition of hovering, or being suspended
(physics) A cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter.
(wikipedia poise)
(obsolete) To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.
* Longfellow
(obsolete) To counterpoise; to counterbalance.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(obsolete) To be of a given weight; to weigh.
(obsolete) To add weight to, to weigh down.
*, II.2:
* 1597 , William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet , I.2:
To hold (something) in equilibrium, to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used.
* Dryden
To keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced.
To ascertain, as if by balancing; to weigh.
* South
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 poise
is (obsolete) weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.As a verb poise
is (obsolete) to hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.poise
English
Noun
(-)- as an huge rockie clift, / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away, / With dreadfull poyse is from the mayneland rift, / [...] So downe he fell [...].
- Men of unbounded imagination often want the poise of judgment.
- (Bentley)
Derived terms
* centipoiseVerb
(pois)- The slender, graceful spars / Poise aloft in air.
- one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality
- to poise with solid sense a sprightly wit
- Every man poiseth upon his fellowes sinne, and elevates his owne.
- you saw her faire none els being by, / Her selfe poysd with her selfe in either eye.
- I poised the crowbar in my hand, and waited.
- to poise the scales of a balance
- Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky; / Nor poised , did on her own foundation lie.
- The rock was poised precariously on the edge of the cliff.
- He cannot sincerely consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence.
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.}}