Spinster vs False - What's the difference?
spinster | false |
A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
* Coke
One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spin master.
(obsolete) Someone whose occupation was spinning thread.
* ~1601 , William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , act II, scene IV:
(obsolete) A woman of evil life and character; so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.
(rare) A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.
(Webster 1913)
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 spinster
is a woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.spinster
English
(wikipedia spinster)Noun
(en noun)- If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster , she may abate the writ.
- The spinsters and the knitters in the sun.
Synonyms
* old maidSee also
* bachelor * widow * divorcee ----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.}}
