(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.
Simular
Definition:
(n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender.
(a.) False; specious; counterfeit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The changes in the frequency of SS in response to ACTG are simular to the hydrocortisone effect, but are less intensive and in some cases depend on the location of the stimulating electrodes.
(2) AET-GRBCs bind to only part of T lymphocytes rosetting with AET-sheep red blood cells (SRBCs): the receptors for both types of RBCs are very simular if not identical, but display higher affinity for AET-SRBCs than for AET-GRBCs.
(3) PGE1 and PGE2 inhibited binding in a simular manner.
(4) These changes are simular to those noted in trigeminal neuralgia.
(5) These conjugates caused greater inhibition of both in vitro and in vivo tumor growth of AFP-producing target tumor cells than did a mixture of aAFP and anti-cancer drugs or a simular conjugate of these drugs with normal horse immunoglobulin.
(6) There is no evidence that the oculopharyngeal myopathy and neuromuscular disease, respectively, are the same, despite the simularity of the syndrome.
(7) No evidence of exogenous causation was found in this case nor in simular cases reported in the literature.
(8) The most frequently isolated lactobacillus was very simular to, but not identical with, Lactobacillus fermenti.
(9) Positive results of the degranulation test occurred with simular frequency in patients with high and low PC20.
(10) The case is discussed in the light of simular and others reports of ocular complication following this procedure in the literature.
(11) With 25 stimuli per sec, simular results may appear, but smaller amplitude changes and lowering of writing pressure may also occur.
(12) The "trigger" zones inducing simular emotional reactions are not equal either with regard to the level of emotional stress appearing during their stimulation or to "resistance" to the activation of the "trigger" zones of the opposite sign.
(13) After introductory remarks about the flow phenomena in the human body (separation, dead waters, stagnation regions) and the model simularity conditions, the flow behaviour in arterial bifurcations at pulsatile flow are considered; they are accompanied by the formation of dead waters and secondary flows and therefore they give the danger of atherosclerosis.
(14) In spite of the simularity of the pathogenic hypothesis, it does not look that a correlation may be made between the two diseases.
(15) We conclude from our investigation that for the SAM of the mitral valve as well as for the outflow tract obstruction different anatomic structures may be responsible, which cause simular hemodynamic abnormalities.
(16) On the basis of structural simularities the question of relationships to known contact allergens, in particular p-phenylendiamine and benzochinones, is examined.
(17) Serum LH levels did not show a simular rise with age, although follicular LH levels in the oldest group were higher than in the 20-29 year group.
(18) The magnetic interaction between the (4Fe-4S) CENTRes of the electron acceptors A and B resulted in saturation properties which are simular to those of the 2(4Fe-4S) ferredoxin from Clostridium pasteurianum.
(19) On the other hand, radioactivity associated with a radioidinated quaternary derivative (3) was found to accumulate incartilaginous tissues such as trachea, intervertebral disks, and chondrosarcoma tumor in a manner simular to hexamethonium.
(20) Nodular malignant melanomas surrounded by a dense lymphocyte infiltration had a significantly worse prognosis than was associated with a simular lymphocyte response against the two other types of melanoma.