Mastery vs False - What's the difference?
mastery | false |
The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
* Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
* (w), xxxii. 18
* , ix. 25.
* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
(label) Contest for superiority.
(label) A masterly operation; a feat.
* (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
(label) The philosopher's stone.
The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
* (John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
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 mastery
is the position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.mastery
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en-noun)- If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
- The voice of them that shout for mastery .
- Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
- O, but to have gulled him / Had been a mastery .
- (Holland)
- I will do a maistrie ere I go.
- He could attain to a mastery in all languages.
- The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.
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.}}