truth

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/tɹuːθ/]

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1. truth (noun) — sense 1

Definition: True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.

Example: The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.

2. truth (noun) — sense 2

Definition: Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.

Example: There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.

3. truth (noun) — sense 3

Definition: The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

Example: Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.

4. truth (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.

Example: c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.

5. truth (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.

Example: 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.

6. truth (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To tell the truth.

Example: You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'

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