Ninja vs True - What's the difference?
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(martial arts, historical) A person trained primarily in stealth, espionage, assassination and the Japanese martial art of ninjutsu.
A Mongolian amateurish private miner (mainly for gold); after the shape of the plastic bowls used to wash metal ore with mercury, roughly resembling one of the .
* 2007 October 10, Jonathan Watts, "Prospectors and 'ninja' miners flood to east's El Dorado" [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/10/international.mainsection1], The Guardian ,
(slang) Juggalo version of the epithet "nigga".
To act in the manner of a , especially in the areas of speed and power.
(gaming, slang) To claim an item in a game by abusing game mechanics, often despite having no real need for the item or ability to use it.
(Internet, slang) To post a response on a message board immediately before someone else unknowingly posts a response saying the same thing.
(of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=
, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
(logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
Loyal, faithful.
Genuine.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=(Henry Petroski), volume=100, issue=1, page=16, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= Legitimate.
Accurate; following a path toward the target.
* {{quote-journal, year=1801, author=Mrs. Cowley
, title=The siege of Acre, journal=The British Critic, volume=17-18?, page=521
, passage=Whate'er the weapon, still his aim was true , Nor e'er in vain the fatal bullet flew.}}
* {{quote-book, year=2008, author=Carl Hiaasen
, title=The downhill lie: a hacker's return to a ruinous sport, page=188
, passage=I held my breath and struck the ball. My aim was true , but I didn't give the damn thing enough gas. It died three feet from the cup.}}
* 1990 , William W. S. Wei, Time Series Analysis , ISBN 0201159112, page 8:
Accurately.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= Truth.
The state of being in alignment.
* 1904 , Lester Gray French, Machinery , Volume 10:
* 1922 , , '' in ''(Tales of the Jazz Age) :
* 1988 , (Lois McMaster Bujold), (Falling Free) , Baen Publishing, ISBN 0-671-65398-9, page 96:
* 1994 , Bruce Palmer, How to Restore Your Harley-Davidson :
To straighten.
To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.
to threaten
As an adjective true is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.ninja
English
(wikipedia ninja)Noun
(en-noun)- Many were former nomads, but as the gold rush gathered pace, students, vets and taxi drivers from Ulan Bator joined the ninjas , not just in Ogoomor but in other gold towns across the country.
- What up, my ninja !
Coordinate terms
* kunoichi * shinobiDerived terms
* ninjitsu * ninjetteVerb
- That damn warrior ninja'd an epic-quality wand even though he can't even use it!
- When I answered the OP's question, I saw that Porthos had ninja'd me by posting the same answer just before I did.
Anagrams
* English refractory feminine rhymes ----true
English
Adjective
(er)The China Governess, chapter=20
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
- making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time
The Washington Monument, passage=The Washington Monument is often described as an obelisk, and sometimes even as a “true' obelisk,” even though it is not. A ' true obelisk is a monolith, a pylon formed out of a single piece of stone.}}
- Let be twice the value of a true die shown on the -th toss.
Antonyms
* false * untrueDerived terms
* come true * ring true * show one's true stripes * to thine own self be true * true believer * true blue * true bug * true colors * True Cross * true daikon * true density * true frog * true-heart * true leaf * true love * true name * true north/True North * true or false/true-or-false * true seal * true stripesAdverb
(-)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
Noun
- Some toolmakers are very careless when drilling the first hole through work that is to be bored, claiming that if the drilled hole comes out of true somewhat it can be brought true with the boring tool.
- She clapped her hands happily, and he thought how pretty she was really, that is, the upper part of her face—from the bridge of the nose down she was somewhat out of true .
- The crate shifted on its pallet, out of sync now. As the lift withdrew, the crate skidded with it, dragged by friction and gravity, skewing farther and farther from true .
- The strength and number of blows depends on how far out of true the shafts are.
Derived terms
* in true * out of trueVerb
- He trued the spokes of the bicycle wheel.
- We spent all night truing up the report.