Womb vs False - What's the difference?
womb | false |
(anatomy) In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
(obsolete) The abdomen or stomach.
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*:And his hede, hym semed,was enamyled with asure, and his shuldyrs shone as the golde, and his wombe was lyke mayles of a merveylous hew.
(obsolete) The stomach of a person or creature.
*1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Jonah II:
*:And þe Lord made redi a gret fish þat he shulde swolewe Ionas; and Ionas was in wombe of þe fish þre da?es and þre ni?tis.
(figuratively) A place where something is made or formed.
*Dryden
*:The womb of earth the genial seed receives.
Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
*Robert Browning
*:The centre spike of gold / Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb .
(obsolete) To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
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 womb
is (anatomy) in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.As a verb womb
is (obsolete) to enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.womb
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(uterus)Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (organ in mammals) uterus, matrix (poetic or literary''), belly (''poetic or literary )Verb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
false
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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.}}