truth

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

truths

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

truth

past (v2)

truthed

past participle (v3)

truthed

present participle

truthing

3rd person singular

truths

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.

   • 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.

2. 2.Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.

   • 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.

3. 3.The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

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

4. 4.Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.

   • Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon the truth of the ironwork.
   • 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.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.

   • This database, which consisists of nearly 180,000 characters, was manually truthed.
   • 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.

Overall

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By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Uncommon

General reading & writing

Common

Academic

Rare

Literature

Rare