true
IPA: trˈu
noun
- (uncountable) The state of being in alignment.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Truth.
- (countable, obsolete) A pledge or truce.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia, United States.
- A town in Rusk County, Wisconsin, United States.
- A townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
verb
- To straighten (of something that is supposed to be straight).
- To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.
adjective
- (of a statement) 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
- Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
- (logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
- Loyal, faithful.
- Genuine; legitimate, valid.
- 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.
- (of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf, etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
- (of a mechanical part) Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
- (chiefly probability) Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
- (of a literary genre) based on actual historical events.
- (electronics) one of two states of a Boolean variable; logic 1.
adverb
- (of shooting, throwing etc) Accurately.
- (archaic) Truthfully.
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Examples of "true" in Sentences
- She was true to him yet! he would say: yes, he used the word! he said _true!
- We think of Him as true to His _promises_, do we think of Him, also, as _true to His threatenings_?
- It is _fit_ to be true, it would be _well if it were true_, it _ought_ to be true, you presently feel.
- If the man in question have thoughts which are socially true, _he must himself know that they are true_.
- To give me a true account of all that happened at the Abbey Grange last night -- a _true_ account, mind you, with nothing added and nothing taken off.
- But the patch itself, like everything else in the world of sense, is of a radically different kind from the things that are true or false, and therefore cannot properly be said to be _true_.
- Method, in whichever light we may choose to view them, that so far from being the best or the only true Method or Process of intellectual investigation, the Inductive is far inferior to the _true Deductive_
- I enquired of him the meaning of those affidavits --- and whether the facts therein stated were true -- to which the said Ketcham answered, that _they were true_ -- but said he did not expect it would have been made public.
- All these forces had helped to make the doctrine of illicit love acceptable in these early days of the Anti-christ reign, so that it was only among the little gatherings of true Believers, that marriage was sanctified into the sacrament it had been in the _good, true_ old days.
- In the following figure, P is the pole of the earth; E the pole of the ecliptic; L the pole of the lunar orbit; V the mean position of the pole of the vortex at the time; the angle ♈ EL the true longitude of the pole of the lunar orbit, equal to the _true_ longitude of the ascending node
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