Yesterday vs False - What's the difference?
yesterday | false |
The day immediately before today; one day ago.
* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Hughes Mearns)
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, passage=Yesterday , upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …}}
The (recent) past, often disparaging.
* 1606 (William Shakespeare), (Macbeth) , 5.5
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= On the day before today
As soon as possible
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 yesterday
is the day immediately before today; one day ago.As an adverb yesterday
is on the day before today.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.yesterday
English
Noun
(en noun)- All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday , of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
Usage notes
* The term yesterdays is unusual and often poetic for the recent past, e.g. "all our yesterdays have come back to haunt us."Derived terms
* born yesterdayAdverb
(-)Synonyms
* the last day (Ireland )Antonyms
* tomorrowSee also
* hesternal * today * tomorrow night * tonight * last night * nudiustertian English pro-forms English temporal location adverbs 1000 English basic wordsfalse
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.}}