Prairie vs False - What's the difference?
prairie | false |
An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
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 proper noun prairie
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.prairie
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(wikipedia prairie)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* California coastal prairie * camas prairie * Canadian Prairies * coastal prairie * dry-mesic prairie * (pomme de prairie) () * prairie alligator () * (prairie anemone) * (prairie apple) * (prairie aster) () ** (white prairie aster) () ** (creeping white prairie aster) () * (prairie bean) () * (prairie berry) () * (vern, prairie bird's-foot trefoil) * prairie bitters * prairie bottom * prairie brant * prairie-breaker * prairie-breaking * prairie buffalo * (prairie burdock) * prairie-buster * (prairie button snakeroot) () * prairie chicken (Tympanuchus spp.) * * prairie climate * prairie clipper * prairie clover (Dalea spp.) * prairie coal * (prairie cock) (Tympanuchus spp.) * prairie cocktail * (prairie coneflower) () * prairie conjunctivitis * (prairie cordgrass) () * (prairie crab), (prairie crab apple), (prairie crabapple) () * Prairie Cree * (prairie crocus) () * (prairie cup) * prairied * (prairie deer mouse) (Peromyscus maniculatus ) * ) * prairie dog ( spp.) * prairiedom * (prairie dropseed) () * (prairie falcon) (Falco mexicanus ) * (prairie false-dandelion) () * prairie-fire * prairie-formation * (prairie fowl) * (prairie fox) (Vulpes macrotis'', ''Vulpes velox ) * (prairie gentian) () * (prairie golden aster) () * (prairie goldenrod) () * (prairie goose) * (prairie gourd), ) * (prairie grass pink) () * (prairie grouse) (Tympanuchus phasianellus ) * (prairie hare) () * (prairie hen) (Tympanuchus spp.) * prairie itch * prairie lake * (prairie lizard) () * prairie loo * (prairie lotus) * prairie madness * (prairie mallow) ( spp.) * (prairie marmot) ( spp.) * (prairie mimosa) () * (prairie mole) * (prairie orchid) ( spp.) * (prairie owl) () * prairie oyster * (prairie pea) () * prairie phase * (prairie pigeon) (Numenius borealis ) * prairie plough, prairie plow * (prairie plover) (Charadrius montanus ) * (prairie potato) () * prairie pothole * Prairie Provinces * (prairie ragwort) () * (prairie rattler), (prairie rattlesnake) () * prairie-renovator * prairie rent * prairie restoration * (prairie rocket) () * (prairie rose) (, Rosa blanda ) * ) * ) * Prairie School * prairie schooner * prairie ship * (prairie shrew) () * (prairie skink) () * prairie skirt * (prairie smoke) ( et al) * (prairie snake) () ** (prairie hognose snake) () ** (prairie kingsnake) () * (prairie snipe) * prairie soil * Prairie Spy * prairie squint * (prairie squirrel) ( spp.'' - gopher) * (prairie star) ** (smooth prairie star) () * Prairie State * Prairie style * (prairie sunflower) () * (prairie thistle) () * (prairie trefoil) * (prairie trillium) () * prairie turnip () * (prairie vole) () * prairie value * (prairie vetchling) ) * * prairie wagon * ) * ) * prairie ware * , prairie white-fringed orchis * ) * prairie wolf * prairie wool * (queen of the prairie), queen-of-the-prairie () * restored prairie * salt prairie * shaking prairie * short-grass prairie * Silicon Prairie * soda prairie * tall-grass prairie, tallgrass prairie * trembling prairie * urban prairie * virgin prairieSee also
* ("prairie" on Wikipedia) * pampa * savanna * steppe ----false
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(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.}}