Wide vs False - What's the difference?
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Having a large physical extent from side to side.
Large in scope.
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, title= (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
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* Massinger
(phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
Remote; distant; far.
* Hammond
(obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
* Milton
* Latimer
* Herbert
(computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional representation.
extensively
completely
away from a given goal
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So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
(cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(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 wide and false
is that wide is having a large physical extent from side to side while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As an adverb wide
is extensively.As a noun wide
is (cricket) a ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score.wide
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Adjective
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- Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand.
- I was but two bows wide .
- the contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God
- our wide expositors
- It is far wide that the people have such judgments.
- How wide is all this long pretence!
- a wide''' character; a '''wide stream
Antonyms
* narrow (regarding empty area) * thin (regarding occupied area) * skinny (sometimes offensive, regarding body width)Adverb
(er)- He travelled far and wide .
- He was wide awake.
- The arrow fell wide of the mark.
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Noun
(en noun)false
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Adjective
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