Siege vs False - What's the difference?
siege | false |
(label) A seat.
#(label) A seat, especially as used by someone of importance or authority.
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#*:Now Merlyn said kyng Arthur / goo thow and aspye me in al this land l knyghtes whiche ben of most prowesse & worship / within short tyme merlyn had founde suche kny?tesThenne the Bisshop of Caunterbury was fette and he blessid the syeges' with grete Royalte and deuoycyon / and there sette the viij and xx knyghtes in her ' syeges
#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , II.vii:
#*:To th'vpper part, where was aduaunced hye / A stately siege of soueraigne maiestye; / And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay.
#(label) An ecclesiastical see.
#(label) The place where one has his seat; a home, residence, domain, empire.
#The seat of a heron while looking out for prey; a flock of heron.
#(label) A privy or lavatory.
#(label) The anus; the rectum.
#*1646 , Sir (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.17:
#*:Another ground were certain holes or cavities observable about the siege ; which being perceived in males, made some conceive there might be also a feminine nature in them.
#(label) Excrements, stool, fecal matter.
#*1610 , (The Tempest) , by (William Shakespeare), act 2 scene 2
#*:Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How cam'st thou / to be the siege of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos?
#(label) Rank; grade; station; estimation.
#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
#*:I fetch my life and being / From men of royal siege .
#(label) The floor of a glass-furnace.
#(label) A workman's bench.
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(label) Military action.
#A prolonged military assault or a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.
#*1748 , (David Hume), Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Section 3 §5:
#*:The Peloponnesian war is a proper subject for history, the siege of Athens for an epic poem, and the death of Alcibiades for a tragedy.
#(label) A period of struggle or difficulty, especially from illness.
#(label) A prolonged assault or attack.
#*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= To assault a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege.
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 siege
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.siege
English
(wikipedia siege)Alternative forms
* syegeNoun
(en noun)England 1-0 Ukraine, passage=But once again Hodgson's men found a way to get the result they required and there is a real air of respectability about their campaign even though they had to survive a first-half siege from a Ukraine side desperate for the win they needed to progress.}}
Derived terms
*Verb
(sieg)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.}}