Yew vs False - What's the difference?
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(countable) A species of coniferous tree, , with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.
(countable, by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus .
Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus
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(uncountable) The wood of the such trees.
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A bow for archery, made of yew wood.
Made from the wood of the yew tree.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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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 adjectives the difference between yew and false
is that yew is made from the wood of the yew tree while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun yew
is (countable) a species of coniferous tree, , with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern europe, northwest africa, northern iran and southwest asia.yew
English
(wikipedia yew) (Taxus)Noun
Synonyms
* , (common yew)Derived terms
* (European yew), (common yew) (Taxus baccata ) * (Pacific yew), (western yew) () * (Canadian yew) () * (Chinese yew) () * Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata ) * (Florida yew) () * (Mexican yew) () * (Sumatran yew) () * (Himalayan yew) () * (white-berry yew) () * (New Caledonian yew), (southern yew) () * (catkin yew) ( sp.) * (plum yew) (also plum-yew) ( sp.) * (vern, Prince Albert's yew) () * self-yewAdjective
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* (Taxus baccata)Anagrams
* *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.}}
