Ribbon vs False - What's the difference?
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A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
A narrow strip or shred.
(shipbuilding)
(slang, dated, in the plural) Driving reins.
(heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
(spinning) A sliver.
(computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
(cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
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 noun ribbon
is a long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.As a verb ribbon
is to decorate with ribbon.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.ribbon
English
(wikipedia ribbon)Noun
(en noun)- a steel or magnesium ribbon
- sails torn to ribbons
- (London Athenaeum)
See also
* ribandSynonyms
* beribbonAnagrams
*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.}}