Pressure vs False - What's the difference?
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A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
* (rfdate) (Macaulay)
Distress.
* 1649 , (Eikon Basilike)
* (rfdate) (Atterbury)
Urgency
(obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
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(physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.
To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.
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 adjectives the difference between pressure and false
is that pressure is squeezed while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a verb pressure
is .pressure
English
Noun
- Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.
- the pressure''' of poverty; the '''pressure''' of taxes; the '''pressure''' of motives on the mind; the ' pressure of civilization.
- Where the pressure of danger was not felt.
- She has felt pressure lately because her boss expects her to get the job done by the first.
- My people's pressures are grievous.
- In the midst of his great troubles and pressures .
- the pressure of business
- All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past.
Synonyms
* (distress) affliction, grievance * (urgency)Derived terms
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* (units of pressure) pascal (Pa); bar, barye (Ba); pounds per square inch (psi, lbf/in2, lb/in2), torr, mmHg, atmosphere (atm)Verb
(pressur)- Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want.
Anagrams
* ----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.}}