Tracy vs False - What's the difference?
tracy | false |
, occasional transferred use of the surname since the nineteenth century.
popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
* 1985 , Snow White and Rose Red , page 130:
* 1993 Wayne C. Lee, Bad Men and Bad Towns , Caxton Press, ISBN 0870043498, page 144:
A city in California.
A city in Minnesota.
A city in Missouri.
A village in New Brunswick, Canada.
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 proper noun tracy
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.tracy
English
Alternative forms
* Tracey, TraciProper noun
(en-proper noun)- "That's her real name, you know. I mean, a lot of girls working the topless joints, they take exotic, sexy names...well, Tiffany Carter, for example...but that was the name Tracy was born with."
- Her name was Theresa (often Tracy ) Oldenburg and she had eyes only for another young man, Richard Puls.
Derived terms
* TracytonQuotations
* 1921 , Indiscretions of Archie , page 162: *: "What's the first name?" - - - "I have a horrible feeling that it's Lancelot!" "Good God!" said Archie. "It couldn't really be that, could it?" Archie looked grave. He hated to to give pain, but he felt he must be honest. "It might," he said. "People give their children all sorts of rummy names. My second name's Tracy . And I have a pal in England who was christened Cuthbert De la Hay Horace. Fortunately everyone calls him Stinker." English unisex given namesfalse
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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.}}