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false       (fôls)  Pronunciation Key  adj.   fals·er, fals·est Contrary to fact or truth: false tales of bravery. Deliberately untrue: delivered false testimony under oath. Arising from mistaken ideas: false hopes of writing a successful novel. Intentionally deceptive: a suitcase with a false bottom; false promises. Not keeping faith; treacherous: a false friend. See Synonyms at faithless. Not genuine or real: false teeth; false documents. Erected temporarily, as for support during construction. Resembling but not accurately or properly designated as such: a false thaw in January; the false dawn peculiar to the tropics. Music Of incorrect pitch. Unwise; imprudent: Don't make a false move or I'll shoot. Computer Science Indicating one of two possible values taken by a variable in Boolean logic or a binary device. adv.   In a treacherous or faithless manner: play a person false. [Middle English fals, from Old English, counterfeit, and from Old French, false, both from Latin falsus, from past participle of fallere, to deceive.] false'ly adv., false'ness n.

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adjective
1.	not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery" [ant: true]
2.	arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"
3.	erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm"
4.	deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses"
5.	inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes" [syn: delusive]
6.	not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide" [syn: fake]
7.	designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom"
8.	inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
9.	adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed]
10.	(used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue"
adverb
1.	in a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false" [syn: faithlessly]

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Main Entry: false
Pronunciation: 'fols
Function: adjective
Inflected Forms: fals·er; fals·est
1 : not correspondingto truth or reality false results>
2 : artificially made false teeth>
3 : of a kind relatedto or resembling another kind that is usually designated by the unqualified vernacular <false oats> —false·ly adverb —false·ness noun

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Main Entry: false
Function: adjective
1 : not genuine, authentic, or legitimate —compare DECEPTIVE, FRAUDULENT —false·ly adverb —false·ness noun

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FALSE
A small, compiled extensible language with lambda abstractions by W. van Oortmerssen.
For Amiga.

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False Pass, AK (CDP, FIPS 24670) Location: 54.84103 N, 163.43685 W
Population (1990): 68 (36 housing units)
Area: 38.3 sq km (land), 6.3 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 99583

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Croup\ (kr??p), n. [Scot. croup, cf. croup, crowp, to croak, to cry or speak with a hoarse voice; cf. also LG. kropp, G. kropf, the crop or craw of a bird, and tumor on the anterior part of the neck, a wen, etc. Cf. Crop.] (Med.) An inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria.

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Fab"ur*den\ (f[a^]b"[u^]r*den), n. [F. faux bourdon. See False, and Burden a verse.]

1. (Mus.) (a) A species of counterpoint with a drone bass. (b) A succession of chords of the sixth. [Obs.]

2. A monotonous refrain. [Obs.] --Holland.

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Fail\v. i. [imp. & p. p. Failed; p. pr. & vb. n. Failing.] [F. failir, fr. L. fallere, falsum, to deceive, akin to E. fall. See Fail, and cf. Fallacy, False, Fault.]

1. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.

As the waters fail from the sea. --Job xiv. 11.

Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign. --Shak.

2. To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.

If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not be attributed to their size. --Berke.

3. To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

When earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail. --Milton.

4. To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.

5. To perish; to die; -- used of a person. [Obs.]

Had the king in his last sickness failed. --Shak.

6. To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.

Take heed now that ye fail not to do this. --Ezra iv. 22.

Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale. --Shak.

7. To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired; to be baffled or frusrated.

Our envious foe hath failed. --Milton.

8. To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps Shall grieve him, if I fail not. --Milton.

9. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.

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