Tent vs False - What's the difference?
tent | false |
A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering persons from the weather.
(archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
To go camping.
(cooking) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
To form into a tent-like shape.
(archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
(archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.
(archaic) Intention; design.
(medicine) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
(medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
(medicine, sometimes, figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.
(Webster 1913)
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 tent
is a pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering persons from the weather or tent can be (archaic|uk|scotland|dialect) attention; regard, care or tent can be (medicine) a roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges or tent can be (archaic) a kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from galicia or malaga in spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.As a verb tent
is to go camping or tent can be (archaic|uk|scotland|dialect) to attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder or tent can be (medicine|sometimes|figurative) to probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.tent
English
(wikipedia tent)Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bender tent * fold one's tent * tent bed * tent caterpillarVerb
(en verb)- We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.
- The sheet tented over his midsection.
See also
* camp * lean-to * tarpEtymology 2
(etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- (Halliwell)
Noun
(en noun)- (Lydgate)
- (Halliwell)
Etymology 3
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- to tent a wound
- I'll tent him to the quick.
Etymology 4
(etyl) . More at tinge, tint, tinto.Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----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.}}
