Prologue vs False - What's the difference?
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A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
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, chapter=2 One who delivers a prologue.
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(computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, 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 prologue
is a speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.As a verb prologue
is to introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.prologue
English
(wikipedia prologue)Alternative forms
* prologNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”}}
- And hither am I come, / A Prologue armed, but not in confidence / Of author's pen or actor's voice,
Antonyms
* (speech or section) epilogueDerived terms
* prologise / prologize / prologuise / prologuizeVerb
(prologu)- (Shakespeare)
References
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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.}}
