Adjective

(er)

(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= The China Governess, chapter=20

, 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= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.

Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.

* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time

(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= 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.}}

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:

Let $Z\_t$ be twice the value of a true die shown on the $t$-th toss.

Adjective

(-)

(obsolete) Colourful.

Apparently true; specious; potentially justifiable.

*, II.8:

*:Doth the master make any bargaine, or dispatch that pleaseth not? it is immediately smothered and suppressed, soone after forging causes, and devising colourable excuses, to excuse the want of execution or answer.

*1612 , , Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia'', Chapel Hill 1988 (''Select Edition of his Writings ), p.178:

they told him their comming was for some extraordinary tooles and shift of apparell; by this colourable excuse, they obtained 6. or 7. more to their confederacie.

* 2003 , Ofer Raban, Modern legal theory and judicial impartiality , p.83:

These three examples have what may be called a 'colourable ' claim for a public justification: they do not appear to us as checkerboard statues because, looking at the distinctions they draw, we presume the required justification does exist .

Deceptive; fake, misleading.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.iii:

Glauce , what needs this colourable word, / To cloke the cause, that hath it selfe bewrayd?

That can be coloured.

* {{quote-book, year=1811, author=Daniel Ellis

, title= Farther inquiries into the changes induced on atmospheric air, by the germination of seeds, the vegetation of plants, and the respiration of animals, page=117 , passage=This matter, however, is not itself coloured, but is only capable of exhibiting colours, by the addition of other matters : and hence we have ventured to call it the colourable , rather than the colouring parts of the plant, by which we merely indicate its property of becoming coloured, but not its actual possession of colour.}}

* {{quote-journal, isbn=0720408431, page=259

, year=1978, author=A. G. Thomason, journal=Advances in graph theory: Volume 1977 , title= Hamiltonian Cycles and Uniquely Edge Colorable Graphs , passage=These results were discovered whilst investigating uniquely edge colourable graphs.}}

* 1992 , STACS 92, 9th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science , edited by A. Finkel and M. Jantzen, page 397:

A circle graph with no cycle of length four is colourable with three colours.