Sunbeam vs False - What's the difference?
sunbeam | false |
A visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.
* 1957 , (Rudolf Arnheim), Film as Art ,
* 2001 , Raymond L. Lee, Alistair B. Fraser, The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science ,
* 2008 (1952), , Roger Greaves (translator), The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt , ISBN 978-0-52025790-0,
(Australia, colloquial, dated) An item of cutlery or crockery laid out on a table, but not used, and which can be returned to the drawer without being washed.“sunbeam ,”
Any butterfly of the genus .
Any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis .
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 sunbeam
is a visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.sunbeam
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Noun
(en noun)page 90,
- I cut-in various other material to this; for instance, a shot of a rushing brook in springtime, with dancing sunbeams reflected in the water; of birds splashing in the village pond; and, finally, of a laughing child.
page 116,
- Similarly, the rays diverging from the sun will pass by you and converge on the point directly opposite the sun, the shadow of your head. All sunbeams', and thus all shadows, appear to converge there.Only perspective makes all shadows appear to converge on the antisolar point. But this point is also the center of the rainbow, so as you look at the rainbow, all ' sunbeams and shadows will lie along radii of the bow as they flow straight to its center.
page 68,
- I had frequently had to explain to cameramen that only in the early morning or late in the evening did sunbeams' fall from the window as flat as they were usually found in films. The sun being higher during the hours of work, another way of showing ' sunbeams had to be found.
2011 February, Oxford Australia Word of the month
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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.}}