Tort vs False - What's the difference?
tort | false |
An injury or wrong.
* Spenser
(legal) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied at civil law, usually through awarding damages.
(rfc-sense) The area of law dealing with such wrongful acts.
(obsolete) Stretched tight; taut.
* Emerson
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
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 tort and false
is that tort is broken while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun tort
is fraction.tort
English
(wikipedia tort)Etymology 1
Dialectal variation of (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from .Noun
(en noun)- that had them long opprest with tort
Synonyms
* delict (Scottish law)Derived terms
* tortiousSee also
*Etymology 3
Adjective
(er)- Yet holds he them with tortest rein.
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.}}