Secrete vs False - What's the difference?
secrete | false |
(obsolete, rare) separated
* 1678 : , The True Intellectual System of the Universe , book 1, chapter 4, pages
To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
* Carpenter
* 2008 , Stephen J. McPhee, Maxine A. Papadakis, et al.,
* 1863 : (author), Frances Elizabeth Kingsley (editor), Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life (first published posthumously in 1877),
* 1887 : , Democracy and Other Addresses ,
To conceal.
* 1914 : The Pacific Reporter , volume 142,
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 43 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
With away, to steal.
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 adjectives the difference between secrete and false
is that secrete is secreted while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a verb secrete
is .secrete
English
Etymology 1
First attested in 1678: from the (etyl) participle .Adjective
(-)307and 582:
- they ?uppo?ing Two other Divine Hypo?ta?es Superiour thereunto, which were perfectly Secrete from Matter.
- This ?o containeth all things, as not being yet ?ecrete and di?tinct''; ''whereas in the Second they are di?cerned and di?tingui?hed by Rea?on''; that is, they are ''Actually di?tingui?hed'' in their ''Ideas''; ''whereas the Fir?t is the Simple and Fecund Power of all things.
Etymology 2
First directly attested in 1728; attested as the past-participial adjective secreted in 1707: from (etyl) and the (etyl) secretar.Verb
- Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know.
Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, McGraw-Hill Medical, page 1202:
- Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.
page 156(8th edition: 1880)
- If you won’t believe my great new doctrine (which, by the bye, is as old as the Greeks), that souls secrete their bodies, as snails do shells, you will remain in outer darkness.
page 15(1892 reprint)
- Let me not be misunderstood. I see as clearly as any man possibly can, and rate as highly, the value of wealth, and of hereditary wealth, as the security of refinement, the feeder of all those arts that ennoble and beautify life, and as making a country worth living in. Many an ancestral hall here in England has been a nursery of that culture which has been of example and benefit to all. Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting .
Etymology 3
Alteration of verb sense of secretVerb
(secret)page 450(West Publishing Company)
- Plaintiffs filed an affidavit for an attachment, alleging that defendant was about to assign, secrete , and dispose of his property with intent to delay and defraud his creditors, and was about to convert his property into money to place it beyond the reach of his creditors.
- Whereas the Renaissance had allowed madness into the light, the classical age saw it as scandal or shame. Families secreted mad uncles and strange cousins in asylums.
- The royal jewels were secreted away in the middle of the night, sub rosa .
Usage notes
* The present participle and past forms secreting and secreted are heteronymous with the corresponding forms of the similar verb secret, and this can create ambiguity when the word is encountered in print.References
* “†se?crete, a.'']” listed in the ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary], second edition (1989) (adjective) * OED (second edition), “
secrete, v.” (verb and figurative senses) English back-formations ----
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