Twinkle vs False - What's the difference?
twinkle | false |
(of a source of light) to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer
* Sir Isaac Newton
* Sir Walter Scott
(chiefly, of eyes) to be bright with delight
to bat, blink or wink the eyes
* Mrs. Juliet M. Hueffer Soskice, "Reminiscences of an Artist's Granddaughter",
* L'Estrange
to flit to and fro
* Dorothy Gilman, "Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle"
a sparkle or glimmer of light
* Robert De Beaugrande, "Text, Discourse, and Process",
a sparkle of delight in the eyes.
a flitting movement
* James Russell Lowell, "Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell",
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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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 verb twinkle
is (of a source of light) to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer.As a noun twinkle
is a sparkle or glimmer of light.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.twinkle
English
Verb
(en-verb)- We could see the lights of the village twinkling in the distance.
- These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures.
- The western sky twinkled with stars.
- His shrewd little eyes twinkled roguishly.
- She smiled and gave a little nod and twinkled her eyes
- The owl fell a moping and twinkling .
- A butterfly twinkled among the vines
Synonyms
* glimmer * scintillate * winkNoun
(en noun)- Soon the rocket was out of sight, and the flame was only seen as a tiny twinkle of light.
- He was a rotund, jolly man with a twinkle in his eye.
- I saw the twinkle of white feet,
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.}}