Thousand vs False - What's the difference?
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(cardinal) A numerical value equal to = 10 × 100 = 103
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 numeral thousand
is (cardinal) a numerical value equal to = 10 × 100 = 103.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.thousand
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Alternative forms
* Arabic numerals: (see for numerical forms in other scripts) * Roman numerals: M * ISO prefix: kilo- * Exponential notation: 103Numeral
(en noun)- The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.
- Many thousands of people came to the conference.
Usage notes
Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine'', the word ''thousand'' is a noun like ''dozen and needs a determiner to function as a numeral. * a thousand''' men / one '''thousand''' men / the '''thousand men * compare a dozen men / one dozen men / the dozen men * compare ten men / the ten men Thousand'' can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take ''-s when preceded by a determiner. * two thousand''' men / some '''thousand men * thousands''' of men / hundreds of '''thousands of menSynonyms
* (numerical) a thousand, one thousand *Derived terms
* hundreds and thousands, mother of thousands, Thousand Islands, thousandfold, thousandth, thousandaireSee also
*Statistics
*Anagrams
* * English numeralsfalse
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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.}}