Commencement vs False - What's the difference?
commencement | false |
The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
:: Yet from the commencement of mining there have been unnoble proprietors of mines, who belonged to the class of merchants.
The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
A graduation ceremony, from a school, college or university.
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 commencement
is the first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.commencement
English
Noun
(en noun)- The time of Henry VII ... nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed modern history. -allam.
- 1800 , William Took, View of the Russian empire during the reign of Catharine the Second
Coordinate terms
* (graduation ceremony) (l)References
* English contranyms ----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.}}