Suspect vs False - What's the difference?
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To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
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, title= To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
To believe (someone) to be guilty.
To have suspicion.
(obsolete) To look up to; to respect.
A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
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(nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
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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 suspect and false
is that suspect is viewed with suspicion; suspected while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a verb suspect
is to imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.As a noun suspect
is a person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.suspect
English
Verb
(en verb)- to suspect the presence of disease
- From her hand I could suspect no ill.
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Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected , but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.}}
- to suspect the truth of a story
- (Addison)
Synonyms
* (imagine or suppose to be true) imagine, suppose, think * (sense) distrust, doubt * (believe to be guilty) accuse, point the finger atNoun
(wikipedia suspect) (en noun)- Round up the usual suspects.'' — ''Casablanca
Adjective
(en adjective)- What I can do or offer is suspect .
- In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
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- Now I’m suspect of other advice that I read in your pages.
Synonyms
* (viewed with suspicion) dodgy (informal), doubtful, dubious, fishy (informal), suspiciousAnagrams
* English heteronyms ----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.}}