Wrinkle vs False - What's the difference?
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A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.
(dated) A notion or fancy; a whim.
To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
* Alexander Pope
To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
(skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
(obsolete) To sneer (at ).
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 wrinkle
is a small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface or wrinkle can be (us|dialect) a winkle.As a verb wrinkle
is to make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.wrinkle
English
(wikipedia wrinkle)Etymology 1
Probably from stem of (etyl) gewrinclod .Alternative forms
* wrincle (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Spending time out in the sun may cause you to develop wrinkles sooner.
- Three months later, we're still discovering new wrinkles .
- to have a new wrinkle
Verb
(wrinkl)- Be careful not to wrinkle your dress before we arrive.
- her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed
- An hour in the tub will cause your fingers to wrinkle .
- The skin is the substance that wrinkles , shows age, stretches, scars and cuts.
- (Marston)
Etymology 2
References
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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.}}