单词 | true |
释义 | Word Frequency true(truː) adjectiveWord forms: truer or truest 1. not false, fictional, or illusory; factual or factually accurate; conforming with reality 2. (prenominal) being of real or natural origin; genuine; not synthetic true leather 3. a. unswervingly faithful and loyal to friends, a cause, etc a true follower b. (as collective noun ; preceded by the) the loyal and the true 4. faithful to a particular concept of truth, esp of religious truth a true believer 5. conforming to a required standard, law, or pattern a true aim a true fit 6. exactly in tune a true note 7. (of a compass bearing) according to the earth's geographical rather than magnetic poles true north 8. biology conforming to the typical structure of a designated type sphagnum moss is a true moss, Spanish moss is not 9. physics not apparent or relative; taking into account all complicating factors the true expansion of a liquid takes into account the expansion of the container Compare apparent (sense 3)10. not true 11. true to life noun 12. correct alignment (esp in the phrases in true, out of true) adverb 13. truthfully; rightly 14. precisely or unswervingly he shot true 15. biology without variation from the ancestral type to breed true verbWord forms: trues, truing or trued 16. (transitive) to adjust so as to make true Derived forms trueness (ˈtrueness) noun Word origin Old English triewe; related to Old Frisian triūwe, Old Saxon, Old High German triuwi loyal, Old Norse tryggr; see trow, trust |
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