True vs Just - What's the difference?
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(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
Factually ; right, correct; proper.
Morally ; upright; righteous, equitable.
* Shakespeare
Only, simply, merely.
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, volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (sentence adverb) (Used to reduce the force of an imperative); simply.
(speech act) (Used to convey a less serious or formal tone)
(speech act) (Used to show humility).
(degree) absolutely, positively
Moments ago, recently.
* , chapter=8
, title= By a narrow margin; closely; nearly.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=14 Exactly, perfectly.
Precisely.
* (John Dryden)
* Sir Philip Sidney
* (William Shakespeare)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title=
True is a related term of just.
As an adjective true
is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a proper noun just is
, cognate to english justus.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.
Usage notes
* Often followed by up .Derived terms
* true-upVerb
Derived terms
* (l)just
English
(wikipedia just)Etymology 1
From (etyl) juste, from (etyl) juste, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch & Scottish juist, French juste etc.Adjective
- It is a just assessment of the facts.
- It looks like a just solution at first glance.
- We know your grace to be a man / Just and upright.
Synonyms
* fair * upright * righteous * equitableAntonyms
* unjustDerived terms
* justly * justnessAdverb
(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.}}
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
citation, passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.}}
- And having just enough, not covet more.
- The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast.
- To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}