Meaning of true | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
2. one of two states of a Boolean variable; logic 1.
   not-comparable
3. real
4. As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
5. Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
6. Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
7. royal, regal
8. Loyal, faithful.
9. real (unit of currency)
10. Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
11. 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.
12. Accurate; following a path toward the target.
    usually
13. Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
14. Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
15. based on actual historical events.

Equivalents

Examples

“This is a true story.”

“The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.”

“The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.”

“At any rate, this does tend to put in truer perspective the symbolic claim placed by Herodotus in the mouth of 'the Athenians'—also Ionians—in 480/479, that the fact of being Greek was constituted in essential part by 'same-bloodedness'.”

“Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.”

“As the is it gold is it blue? dress moment proved all too well, dividing opinion on social media is really not that hard. And, when it comes to GymTok, that couldn't be truer.”

“True, I have only read part of the book, but I like it so far.”

“a true copy”

“a true likeness of the original”

“[…]making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time[…]”

“"A and B" is true if and only if "A" is true and "B" is true.”

“He’s turned out to be a true friend.”

“I really let you down / Next time I'll be true, yeah”

“The true king has returned!”

“This is true Parmesan cheese — it is from the Parma region.”

“The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunyng of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge”

“The Washington Monument is often described as an obelisk, and sometimes even as a “true obelisk,” even though it is not. A true obelisk is a monolith, a pylon formed out of a single piece of stone.”

“true sparrows (Passer)”

“true spiders”

“true blusher (Amanita rubescens, as distinguished from the false blusher, Amanita pantherina)”

“The true bugs are those of the order Hemiptera; and, by some lights, most truly those of the suborder Heteroptera.”

“Whate'er the weapon, still his aim was true, Nor e'er in vain the fatal bullet flew.”

“I held my breath and struck the ball. My aim was true, but I didn't give the damn thing enough gas. It died three feet from the cup.”

“Is my bike wheel true? It feels unsteady.”

“Brakes need good braking surfaces and true wheels to work properly.”

“Let Z#95;t be twice the value of a true die shown on the t-th toss.”

“In fact, few profit margins can be predicted with such reliability as those provided by a true roulette wheel or other game of chance.”

“Finally, the truest measure of quality: In interconference games, Western teams have a 57-38 record against the East, including overtime and penalty shootout results — a winning percentage of .600.”

“We do not reject, because 9 heads and 3 tails is in a set of reasonably likely results when we toss a true coin.”

“true crime”

“true romance”

“[A] skinny blonde of about twenty sitting in an armchair by an electric fire reading a true romance magazine.”

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