What's the difference between false and proposition?

False


Definition:

  • (superl.) Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.
  • (superl.) Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises.
  • (superl.) Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.
  • (superl.) Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry.
  • (superl.) Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar.
  • (superl.) Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
  • (superl.) Not in tune.
  • (adv.) Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • (a.) To report falsely; to falsify.
  • (a.) To betray; to falsify.
  • (a.) To mislead by want of truth; to deceive.
  • (a.) To feign; to pretend to make.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Analysis revealed some significant differences in the false-positive rate, depending on the test method used or virus samples evaluated.
  • (2) These results indicate that HBV markers in cord blood are either false-positive or due to contamination by maternal blood rather than an indication of in utero infection.
  • (3) Administration of furosemide might result, on occasion, in a false positive test for pheochromocytoma.
  • (4) Antigen of HK-9 strain created in this area a characteristic pattern with all sera containing the specific anti-E. histolytica antibodies and, therefore, EITB can be used for excluding false positive results in ELISA.
  • (5) However, in benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) cases, a high false positive rate of 41% was observed in Americans.
  • (6) Results of sleep sampling under electroencephalographic control of the assessment of GH secretion are comparable to conventional pharmacological studies in terms of efficiency, sensitivity, and percentage false-negatives.
  • (7) Newer modalities, such as TRUS and PSA, can identify patients with nonpalpable prostate cancer, but the use of these tests will also result in many false-positives.
  • (8) In one case MRI showed a false image of tear of the supra spinatus m. on its anterior edge.
  • (9) In response, Trump used Twitter to falsely claim that the woman in question, Alicia Machado, had made a sex tape.
  • (10) The incidence of false positive and false negative cells seen after hybridization of tritiated Y-probes to control lymphocyte cultures suggests that it should normally be possible to distinguish morphologically normal male and female pre-embryos with samples of three to six interphase nuclei.
  • (11) Three Labour MPs and a Tory peer will be charged with false accounting in relation to their parliamentary expenses, it was announced today.
  • (12) Pseudohyponatremia is a falsely low serum sodium measurement.
  • (13) The small number of discordant outcomes could generally be accounted for by three factors: (1) retinal abnormalities beyond those considered in the photographic grading system (12 eyes), (2) nonretinal visual pathway disease (five eyes), or (3) false-positive and false-negative results in the measurement systems used to evaluate structure and function (five eyes).
  • (14) At cut-off levels chosen to yield the same false positive rate the quantitative DBA method detected 93% of smokers, close to that of 98% detected with the cotinine RIA.
  • (15) Several months later, as the patient experienced relapses with cerebellar and spinal cord involvement, falsely positive tests for syphilis were found and an antibiotic treatment was given.
  • (16) He received five years for one count of conspiracy and three years for two counts of filing a false tax return.
  • (17) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
  • (18) In three cases, no arterial lesion was detected (3 false-positive findings).
  • (19) DNA-samples from HSV-infected and uninfected Vero cells have been examined concurrently to provide standard "HSV-positive" and "HSV-negative" samples, the latter guarding also against false positives caused by cross-contamination.
  • (20) Systolic time intervals measured after profuse sweating can give a false impression of cardiac function.

Proposition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.
  • (n.) That which is proposed; that which is offered, as for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; a proposal; as, the enemy made propositions of peace; his proposition was not accepted.
  • (n.) A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed; as, the propositions of Wyclif and Huss.
  • (n.) A complete sentence, or part of a sentence consisting of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white.
  • (n.) A statement in terms of a truth to be demonstrated, or of an operation to be performed.
  • (n.) That which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.
  • (n.) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The data support the proposition that the latency of P300 corresponds to stimulus evaluation time and is independent of response selection.
  • (2) The proposition put forward in this paper is that standards of nursing practice can only be assured if the profession is able to find ways of responding to the intuitions and gut reactions of its practitioners.
  • (3) The major propositions of self-efficacy theory are described and related to the experience of women approaching labor.
  • (4) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
  • (5) This paper briefly explores the following propositions: People usually attend their doctors with complaints of individual functioning.
  • (6) This study tests the proposition that selected behaviors of both mother and infant during feeding are predictors of weight gain during the 1st mth of life.
  • (7) Selection of dominant follicle(s)--a speculative proposition assuming timely and selective activation of the IGF-I system in "chosen" follicles.
  • (8) The paper finishes with concrete propositions of proceeding when the computer system is implemented and shows possibilities of scientific data evaluation of a microbiological data base.
  • (9) To evaluate the generality of this proposition we studied procedural learning on three different tasks in an amnesic patient who displayed no signs of intellectual deterioration including problem-solving difficulty.
  • (10) Recent data are cited for the proposition that these changes constitute a closed pathogenetic concatenation creating a vicious circle.
  • (11) Meanwhile, California voters pass Proposition 8, the controversial ballot measure that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
  • (12) This proposition is justified by the severe side effects of the currently used chronic anticonvulsant drug therapy in febrile seizures (phenobarbital and valproate).
  • (13) In view of the facts that uric acid is a common end-product of human and animal metabolism, it is abundantly present in the avian faecal matter and is capable of inducing mucoid growth and capsule formation in dry growing non-encapsulated strains or in an otherwise rough looking hypha forming isolate, its role in studying the phylogenesis of C. neoformans and its pathogenicity seems to be an important proposition.
  • (14) The dotcom fiasco, and that is what it looks like, noting as we do many more complaints over praise for the current proposition, leaves a bitter taste for investors to our minds.
  • (15) The author rejects the proposition, encountered in some parts of the psychoanalytic and social-science literature, that certain types of disturbances correspond to certain epochs or forms of society.
  • (16) The government would also be making a big call if it refused to budge because it would risk having to negotiate with the disparate group of crossbench senators to salvage the deal, a difficult proposition on such a significant trade agreement.
  • (17) It is first reasserted that the idea that the problem drinking paradigm is nothing more than a bid by psychologists to take over the alcohol studies field is neither a useful nor serious proposition.
  • (18) "The moon is very visible and any proposition by another country to set up a permanent presence there would be unacceptable to the Americans."
  • (19) Although the amino acid sequences of the two ferritin subunits (H and L) diverge in about 50% of the coding region, their five alpha-helices and the exon sizes of their genes are compatible with the proposition that they diverged from a single ancestral gene.
  • (20) In this life,” he said, smiling, “you have to make some money.” He then spelled out the cartel’s proposition: it would pay Sirleaf handsomely in exchange for his help in using Liberia as a transit hub for smuggling cocaine from Colombia into Europe.

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