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As verbs the difference between know and truth

is that know is (lb) to perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that while truth is (obsolete|transitive) to assert as true; to declare, to speak truthfully.

As nouns the difference between know and truth

is that know is knowledge; the state of knowing while truth is the state or quality of being true to someone or something.

know

English

(wikipedia know)

Verb

  • (lb) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
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  • (lb) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
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  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew , made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
  • (lb) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
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  • (lb) To experience.
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  • *1991 , Irvin Haas, Historic Homes of the American Presidents , p.155:
  • *:The Truman family knew good times and bad,.
  • (lb) To distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
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  • *(Bible)'', ''(w) 7.16 :
  • *:Ye shall know them by their fruits.
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  • *:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
  • *1980 , Armored and mechanized brigade operations , p.3−29:
  • *:Flares do not know friend from foe and so illuminate both. Changes in wind direction can result in flare exposure of the attacker while defenders hide in the shadows.
  • (lb) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
  • * (Thomas Flatman), Translation of Part of (Petronius) Arbiter's (Satyricon)
  • *:At nearer view he thought he knew the dead, / And call'd the wretched man to mind.
  • *1818 , (w), (Frankenstein) :
  • *:Ernest also is so much improved, that you would hardly know him:.
  • To understand from experience or study.
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  • (lb) To understand (a subject).
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  • To have sexual relations with.
  • *, (w) 4.1:
  • *:And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
  • (lb) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
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  • *:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
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  • (lb) To be or become aware or cognizant.
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  • To be acquainted (with another person).
  • *1607 , (William Shakespeare), (Antony and Cleopatra) , :
  • *:You and I have known , sir.
  • Quotations

    * 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Julius Caesar , scene 1: *: O, that a man might know' / The end of this day's business ere it come! / But it sufficeth that the day will end, / And then the end is ' known . * 1839 , (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), The Light of Stars'', ''Voices of the Night : *: O fear not in a world like this, / And thou shalt know' erelong, / ' Know how sublime a thing it is, / To suffer and be strong. *

    Usage notes

    * "Knowen" is found in some old texts as the past participle. * In some old texts, the form "know to [verb]" rather than "know how to [verb]" is found, e.g. Milton wrote "he knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhymes".

    Derived terms

    * God knows * God only knows * it's not what you know but who you know * know about * know-all * know beans about * know from * know-how * know inside and out * know-it-all * knowledge * know like a book * know like the back of one's hand * know-nothing * know of * know one's ass from a hole in the ground * know one's own mind * know one's way around * know someone in the biblical sense * know which end is up * know which way is up * not know someone from Adam * the dear knows

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Knowledge; the state of knowing.
  • * 1623 , William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1623 first folio edition), act 5, scene 2:
  • That on the view and know of these Contents, death,

    Derived terms

    * in the know

    References

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    truth

    English

    Alternative forms

    * trewth (obsolete)

    Noun

    (order of senses) (en-noun)
  • The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
  • (label) Faithfulness, fidelity.
  • * (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
  • Alas! they had been friends in youth, / But whispering tongues can poison truth .
  • (label) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
  • True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
  • * (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
  • The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.}}
  • Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Robert M. Pringle, volume=100, issue=1, page=31, magazine=(American Scientist), title= How to Be Manipulative
  • , passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}
  • Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
  • * John Mortimer (1656?-1736)
  • Ploughs, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork.
  • That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
  • * 1820 , (John Keats), (Ode on a Grecian Urn)
  • Beauty is truth', ' truth beauty, - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
  • (label) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
  • * 1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice)
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
  • Topness. (See also truth quark.)
  • Synonyms

    * See

    Antonyms

    * falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, untruth, half-truth

    Derived terms

    * half-truth * if truth be told * tell the truth * truthful * truthiness * truthless * truth or dare * truth serum * truthy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To assert as true; to declare, to speak truthfully.
  • Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. — Ford.
    1966', ''You keep lying, when you oughta be '''truthin' — Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"

    See also

    * (wikipedia)

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