Substance vs False - What's the difference?
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Physical matter; material.
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, title= The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* Bishop Burnet
* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
* Bible, (w) xv. 13
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
Drugs (illegal narcotics)
(theology) Hypostasis.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, 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 substance
is physical matter; material.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.substance
English
(wikipedia substance)Alternative forms
* substaunce (archaic)Noun
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- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances , which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
- Heroic virtue did his actions guide, / And he the substance , not the appearance, chose.
- This edition is the same in substance with the Latin.
- It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming.
- And there wasted his substance with riotous living.
- Thy substance , valued at the highest rate, / Cannot amount unto a hundred marks.
- We are destroying many thousand lives, and exhausting our substance , but not for our own interest.
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(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.}}