true meaning
EN[tɹuː] [tɹu] [-uː]US UK
WTrue
- True may refer to:
- Truth, the state of being in congruence with fact or reality
EN TRUE
- Noun
- Truth.
- The state of being in alignment.
- Truth.
- VerbSGtruesPRtrueingPRtruingPT, PPtrued
- To straighten.
- He trued the spokes of the bicycle wheel.
- To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.
- We spent all night truing up the report.
- To straighten.
- AdjectiveCOMtruerSUPtruest
- (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
- This is a true story.
- Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
- a true copy; a true likeness of the original
- (logic) 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.
- Loyal, faithful.
- He’s turned out to be a true friend.
- Genuine.
- This is true Parmesan cheese.
- Legitimate.
- The true king has returned!
- (of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf, etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
- Whate'er the weapon, still his aim was true, Nor e'er in vain the fatal bullet flew.
- (chiefly probability) Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
- (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
- AdverbCOMtruerSUPtruest
- (of shooting, throwing etc) Accurately.
- Plant breeding is always a numbers game. [ …] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
- (of shooting, throwing etc) Accurately.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- "A and B" is true if and only if "A" is true and "B" is true.
- Thus the observed differences in GM atrophy rates in this study were most likely not caused by pseudoatrophy, but by true differences in volume loss.
- But he did not lose heart and remained true to his perspective, swimming against the current, as it were, lion-heartedly.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Of all the opinions, this one instanced in by you is in your judgment the truest.
- He checked out the rumor, and managed to verify that it was true.
- The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait, as distinguishing them from the French, who, in the popular belief, are more polite than true.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of true in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary