truth
suomi-englanti sanakirjatruth englannista suomeksi
totuudellisuus, todenmukaisuus
totuus
Substantiivi
Verbi
truth englanniksi
Truth
True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
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(quote-book)|quotee=(w)|isbn=9781986410328|url=https://books.google.com.sg/books/about/Specimens_of_the_Table_Talk_of_Samuel_Ta.html?id=csRVuAEACAAJ|page=19|pageurl=https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=msYNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA19|passage=The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.
(quote-journal)|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20181104062306/https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2014/06/19/magicians-brain|archivedate=4 November 2018
Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
(quote-journal)|title=How to Be Manipulative
The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
(RQ:Coleridge Chris)
- Alas! they had been friends in youth, / But whispering tongues can poison truth.
A pledge of loyalty or faith.
Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
(RQ:Mortimer Husbandr)
- Ploughs, (..) to make them go true, (..) depends much upon the truth of the ironwork.
1840, Whitworth|Joseph Whitworth, "Papers on Mechanical Subjects/A Paper on Plane Metallic Surfaces or True Planes|A Paper on Plane Metallic Surfaces or True Planes":
- 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.
(RQ:Keats Lamia)
Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
(quote-book)|title=(w)|oclc=38659585|ol=6087610M|url=https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice|passage=It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
In the game or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.
''c.'' 1636 (w), ''(w)''
- Had they ancients dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.
To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
(quote-book)
To tell the truth.
1966, (w), "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
- ''You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'''