Pronunciations (3)
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/tɹuːθ/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/tɹuθ/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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tɹuːθ
Noun
True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
Usage- Uncountable
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The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.
The truth depends on, and is only arrived at, by a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.
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The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.
Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
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There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.
As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
Usage- Uncountable
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Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.
Faithfulness, fidelity.
Usage- Archaic
- Uncountable
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; / But whispering tongues can poison truth; […]
A pledge of loyalty or faith.
Usage- Obsolete
- Uncountable
- usually
Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
Usage- Uncountable
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Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon the truth of the ironwork.
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The process of grinding is, in fact, regarded as indispensable wherever truth is required, yet that of scraping is calculated to produce a higher degree of truth than has ever been attained by grinding.
That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
Usage- Uncountable
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The truth is what is.
Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to truth.
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
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Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Topness; the property of a truth quark.
Usage- Dated
- Uncountable
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In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.
Usage- Uncountable
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When asked truth or dare, he picked truth.
Verb
To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
Usage- Obsolete
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c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.
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You were sitting with your family Thanksgiving, belly full of turkey and pie, surrounded by the love of your extended crime family, but your initial instinct was to truth a slur at Tim Walz?
To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
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A concentrated region of the agricultural test area was intensively ground truthed, not only to identify the crop types, but equally important, also to begin to determine the parameters controlling the radar energy reflected from a crop type at a particular stage of growth.
As is shown in this table, APG images in the validation subset were only truthed with box models, and the 29P images in this subset were never truthed at all.
This database, which consisists of nearly 180,000 characters, was manually truthed.
To tell the truth.
Usage- Intransitive
- nonstandard
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You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'
Noun
a fact that has been verified
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at last he knew the truth
the truth is that he didn't want to do it
conformity to reality or actuality
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they debated the truth of the proposition
the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat
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he was famous for the truth of his portraits
he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities
a true statement
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he told the truth
he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it
the quality of being near to the true value
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he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass
the lawyer questioned the truth of my account