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- 1 Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
"This is a true story."
- 2 one of two states of a Boolean variable; logic 1. not-comparable
- 3 Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.; As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
"True, I have only read part of the book, but I like it so far."
- 4 Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
"a true copy"
- 5 Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
""A and B" is true if and only if "A" is true and "B" is true."
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- 6 Loyal, faithful.
"He’s turned out to be a true friend."
- 7 Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
"The true king has returned!"
- 8 Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.; Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false.
"true sparrows (Passer)"
- 9 Accurate; following a path toward the target. usually
"Whate'er the weapon, still his aim was true, Nor e'er in vain the fatal bullet flew."
- 10 Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
"Is my bike wheel true? It feels unsteady."
- 11 Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
"Let Z#95;t be twice the value of a true die shown on the t-th toss."
- 12 based on actual historical events.
"true crime"
- 1 accurately placed or thrown wordnet
- 2 accurately fitted; level wordnet
- 3 devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth wordnet
- 4 in tune; accurate in pitch wordnet
- 5 expressing or given to expressing the truth wordnet
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- 6 having a legally established claim wordnet
- 7 determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles wordnet
- 8 rightly so called wordnet
- 9 not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed wordnet
- 10 consistent with fact or reality; not false wordnet
- 11 worthy of being depended on wordnet
- 12 conforming to definitive criteria wordnet
- 1 Accurately; in alignment. not-comparable
"This gun shoots true."
- 2 Truthfully. archaic, not-comparable
"I tel you true my hart is ſwolne with wrath, On this ſame theeuish villain Tamburlain."
- 1 as acknowledged wordnet
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 An unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia, United States. countable, uncountable
- 3 A town in Rusk County, Wisconsin, United States. countable, uncountable
- 4 A townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. countable, uncountable
- 1 The state of being in alignment. uncountable
"Some toolmakers are very careless when drilling the first hole through work that is to be bored, claiming that if the drilled hole comes out of true somewhat it can be brought true with the boring tool."
- 2 A pledge or truce. obsolete
- 3 proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment wordnet
- 4 Truth. obsolete, uncountable
- 1 To straighten (something that is supposed to be straight).
"He trued the spokes of the bicycle wheel."
- 2 make level, square, balanced, or concentric wordnet
- 3 To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust (often followed by up).
"We spent all night truing up the report."
Etymology
From Middle English trewe, from Old English trīewe, (Mercian) trēowe (“trusty, faithful”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (compare Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Dutch getrouw and trouw, German treu, Norwegian and Swedish trygg (“safe, secure’”)), from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewh₂- (“steady, firm”) (compare Irish dearbh (“sure”), Old Prussian druwis (“faith”), Ancient Greek δροόν (droón, “firm”)), extension of *dóru (“tree”) (possibly also Proto-Slavic *sъdorvъ (“healthy”) from the same root). More at tree. For the semantic development, compare Latin robustus (“tough”) from robur (“red oak”).
From Middle English trewe, from Old English trīewe, (Mercian) trēowe (“trusty, faithful”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (compare Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Dutch getrouw and trouw, German treu, Norwegian and Swedish trygg (“safe, secure’”)), from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewh₂- (“steady, firm”) (compare Irish dearbh (“sure”), Old Prussian druwis (“faith”), Ancient Greek δροόν (droón, “firm”)), extension of *dóru (“tree”) (possibly also Proto-Slavic *sъdorvъ (“healthy”) from the same root). More at tree. For the semantic development, compare Latin robustus (“tough”) from robur (“red oak”).
From Middle English trewe, from Old English trīewe, (Mercian) trēowe (“trusty, faithful”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (compare Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Dutch getrouw and trouw, German treu, Norwegian and Swedish trygg (“safe, secure’”)), from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewh₂- (“steady, firm”) (compare Irish dearbh (“sure”), Old Prussian druwis (“faith”), Ancient Greek δροόν (droón, “firm”)), extension of *dóru (“tree”) (possibly also Proto-Slavic *sъdorvъ (“healthy”) from the same root). More at tree. For the semantic development, compare Latin robustus (“tough”) from robur (“red oak”).
From Middle English trewe, from Old English trīewe, (Mercian) trēowe (“trusty, faithful”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (compare Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Dutch getrouw and trouw, German treu, Norwegian and Swedish trygg (“safe, secure’”)), from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewh₂- (“steady, firm”) (compare Irish dearbh (“sure”), Old Prussian druwis (“faith”), Ancient Greek δροόν (droón, “firm”)), extension of *dóru (“tree”) (possibly also Proto-Slavic *sъdorvъ (“healthy”) from the same root). More at tree. For the semantic development, compare Latin robustus (“tough”) from robur (“red oak”).
Variant of truce.
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