Wafer vs False - What's the difference?
wafer | false |
A light, thin, flat biscuit.
(religion) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 202:
(electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
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 a noun wafer
is wafer.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.wafer
English
Noun
(en noun)- The house supplied him with a wafer for his present purpose, with which, having sealed his letter, he returned hastily towards the brook side, in order to search for the things which he had there lost.
Derived terms
* waferless * waferlike * waferySynonyms
* (religion) hostfalse
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.}}