Prospect vs False - What's the difference?
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The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
* Milton
A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
* Evelyn
A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
* 1667 , Milton, Paradise Lost
Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
* Bible, Ezekiel xl. 44
The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
* John Locke
* Tillotson
The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 2, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
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, volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= A hope; a hopeful.
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, title= (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
(music) The of an organ.
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 prospect
is the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.As a verb prospect
is to search, as for gold.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.prospect
English
Noun
(en noun)- His eye discovers unaware / The goodly prospect of some foreign land.
- I went to Putney to take prospects in crayon.
- Him God beholding from his prospect high.
- Their prospect was toward the south.
- a very ill prospect of a future state
- Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life?
Bulgaria 0-3 England, passage=And a further boost to England's qualification prospects came after the final whistle when Wales recorded a 2-1 home win over group rivals Montenegro, who Capello's men face in their final qualifier.}}
Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report, passage=The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott. }}
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.}}