Spelling vs False - What's the difference?
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* 2006 , Wm. Shakespeare, Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, eds., Hamlet , London: Arden Shakespeare:
(uncountable) The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.
* 1904 , , Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White , p 43:
* 1920 , Henry Gallup Paine, Handbook of Simplified Spelling , New York: Simplified Spelling Board, p 1:
* 2001 , , The Program , New York: Dell, p 66:
(uncountable) The manner of spelling of words; correct spelling.
* 2006 , Wm. Shakespeare, Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, eds., Hamlet , London: Arden Shakespeare:
(countable) A specific spelling of a word.
* 2006 , Wm. Shakespeare, Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, eds., Hamlet , London: Arden Shakespeare:
(US, rare, dated, countable, or, uncountable) A spelling test or spelling bee.
* 1860 , , The Colonel's Diary: Journals Kept Before and During the Civil War [1922], Sharon, Penn., p 23:
* 1889 , , “A’ Old Played-Out Song”, in Pipes O' Pan at Zekesbury , Indianapolis, Ind.: Bowen-Merrill, p 45:
* 2004 , Carl Lindahl, ed., American Folktales: From the Collections of the Library of Congress , v 1, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, p 416:
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 a verb spelling
is .As a noun spelling
is (uncountable) the act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.spelling
English
(wikipedia spelling)Verb
(head)- [p 88] A persuasive theory about the authority of the quarto or Folio texts might shed light on how Shakespeare actually spelt these names in a particular manuscript, but, since Shakespeare seemed capable of spelling his own name differently on different occasions, how reliable a guide would such evidence be?
Noun
- For the practical use of spelling comes in writing.
- Spelling was invented by man and, like other human inventions, is capable of development and improvement by man in the direction of simplicity, economy, and efficiency.
- I knew that Kriciak, the inspector who was supervising me for the Marshals Service, was going to go nuts when I told him that I wanted to allow Landon to participate in soccer and spelling .
- [p 88] Because Elizabethan spelling' was fluid, editors feel free to ‘modernize’ (correct) the '''spelling''' in the quartos and the Folio. But how is one to spell Rosencratz or Guildenstern, where the ' spelling varies, not only from text to text, but even within texts?
- [p 253] *excellent' Q2’s ‘extent’ is generally dismissed as an error, probably a mis-reading of ‘exlent’, a common ' spelling at this time.
- [p 269] reverend The spellings ‘reuerent’ (Q2) and ‘Reuerend’ (F) were interchangeable at this time.
- [p 466] Guildensterne and Rosincrance are F’s consistent spellings .
- The boys were anxious for a spelling in the evening but I said no.
- How her face ust to look, in the twilight, / As I tuck her to spellin’ ; and she / Kep’ a-hummin’ that song ’tel I ast her, / Pine-blank, ef she ever missed me!
- So we'd sit with these girls during school hours, and we told them, if they'd slip off, that we'd get away, and we'd go to [the school] to a spelling .
Synonyms
* (subject) orthographyDerived terms
* alternative spelling * misspelling * pronunciation spelling * respell * respelling * spelling bee * spelling checker * spell checker, spell-checker * spell check, spell-check, spellcheck * spelling pronunciation * spelling reform ----false
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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.}}