Terrene vs False - What's the difference?
terrene | false |
Pertaining to the earth; earthly, terrestrial, worldly as opposed to heavenly.
* (rfdate) Sir Walter Raleigh:
* (rfdate) Hickok:
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
(poetic) The Earth's surface; the earth; the ground.
* Tenfold the length of this terrene . — Milton.
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 terrene and false
is that terrene is pertaining to the earth; earthly, terrestrial, worldly as opposed to heavenly while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun terrene
is (poetic) the earth's surface; the earth; the ground or terrene can be .terrene
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene .
- Common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of our terrene experience.
- Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ’s terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.
- For the earth was both celestial and terrene , the down here and the up there.
Noun
Etymology 2
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.}}