noun
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The state of being in alignment.
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Truth.
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A pledge or truce.
verb
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To straighten.
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He trued the spokes of the bicycle wheel.
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To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.
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We spent all night truing up the report.
adjective
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(of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
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This is a true story.
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Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
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a true copy; a true likeness of the original
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Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
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"A and B" is true if and only if "A" is true and "B" is true.
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Loyal, faithful.
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He’s turned out to be a true friend.
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Genuine; legitimate.
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The true king has returned!
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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.
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true blusher (Amanita rubescens, as distinguished from the false blusher, Amanita pantherina)
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(of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
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Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
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(Of a literary genre) based on actual historical events.
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true crime
adverb
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(of shooting, throwing etc) Accurately.
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this gun shoots true
Examples of true in a Sentence
It was true, she didn't know him.
A few months ago she didn't know the true meaning of love.
You are true to your nature.
Alex had been the one who helped her see them as true family, and yet he was having issues accepting his own father.
Acquaintances were shallow and many, but if a person had one true friend in a lifetime, they were blessed.
True scarcity is uncommon.
As a true friend, I have thought and thought again about your affair.
Maybe... but something about him rang true – mostly the part that he had saved her life.
It wasn't true, and Len wasn't buying it, but he said nothing.
And we know the thing is true, because since the time of that interview there is no piglet to be found anywhere.
That part was true.
All that was true enough, but remaining bitter about it wasn't going to improve their relationship.
True to our verbal blackout, nothing specific was said but the tone of her conversation hinted at sensational news.
Well, that wasn't entirely true.
You know that isn't true.
Such was the way in which the first true English poem was written.
If he reports that our losses were great, it is not true; perhaps about four thousand, not more, and not even that; but even were they ten thousand, that's war!
That might be true.
It was true — all of it.
It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but, doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.
It was all too good to be true.
Well, that wasn't exactly true.
It's true this engagement never was much to my liking.
Is it true, as they tell me, that I can't even go away?
Murgoci the Rumanian amber is true succinite.
It is true, on the other hand, that in her descriptions, she is best from the point of view of art when she is faithful to her own sensations; and this is precisely true of all artists.
True amber is sometimes coloured artificially.
The structure of the stomata of the sporophyte of vascular plants is fundamentally the same as that of the stomata on the sporogonium of the true mosses and of the liverwort A nihoceros.
In the majority of ferns, at a higher level, after the stele has increased greatly in diameter, a large-celled true pith or medulla, resembling the cortex in its characters, and quite distinct from conjunctive, from which it is separated by an internal endodernlis, appears in the centre.
These fibre-tracheids are easily confused on superficial view with the true wood-fibres belonging to the parenchymatous system; but their pits are always bordered, though in the extreme type they are reduced to mere slits in the wall.
In many annual plants no cambium is formed at all, and the same is true of most perennial Pteridophytes and Monocotyledons.
Filicales and Gymnosperms, and known as the Cycadofihices, a group in which, curiously enough, the reproductive organs remained undiscovered for some time after the anatomy of the vegetative organs was sufficiently well known to afford clear evidence of their true affinities.
It is not quite certain whether a true pepsin exists in plants, but many trypsins have been discovered, and one form of erepsin, at least, is very widespread.
It was not till De Bary (1866) made known the true nature of parasitic Fungi, based on his researches between 1853-1863, that the vast domain of epidemic diseases of plants was opened up to fruitful investigation, and such modern treatises as those of Frank (1880 and L895), Sorauer (1886), Kirchner (1890), were gradually made possible.
Plants as agents of damage and disease may be divided into those larger forms which as weeds, epiphytes and so forth, do injury by dominating and shading more delicate species, or by gradually exhausting the soil, &c., and true parasites which actually live on and in the tissues of the plants.
The Church, it is true, in council after council, passed decisions unfriendly to the Jews.
The second man then spoke up and said, It is true that I sold him the ground, but I did not reserve anything he might find in it.
It is true that I have been asleep, but I know nothing about this money.
If it was true then, then it is even more true now.
Some have questioned whether Friedman's thesis is 100 percent true, mentioning NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia as a potential exception.
It is true that I was familiar with all literary braille in common use in this country--English, American, and New York Point; but the various signs and symbols in geometry and algebra in the three systems are very different, and I had used only the English braille in my algebra.
They are there, it is true; but they seem mummified.
She has the true language-impulse, and shows great fertility of resource in making the words at her command convey her meaning.
This was true, although we were at a loss to understand how she guessed it.
It is true, the more sensitive and imaginative the mind is that receives the thought-pictures and images of literature, the more nicely the finest lines are reproduced.
It is true rather that she has a special aptitude for thinking, and her leaning toward language is due to the fact that language to her meant life.
It is true that a teacher with ten times Miss Sullivan's genius could not have made a pupil so remarkable as Helen Keller out of a child born dull and mentally deficient.
Writing for other people, she should in many cases be true to outer fact rather than to her own experience.
It's true Mr. Dean has been under fire—it's fortunate we're standing here today—not sitting.
He hadn't wanted them to be true.