True vs Thru - What's the difference?
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(of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
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, 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.
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, 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.
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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
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, issue=12
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, magazine=Water Engineering & Management
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, title=Religious Liberty and Human Dignity: A Tale of Two Declarations
, volume=27
, issue=1
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, magazine=Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
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, passage=… to respect human rights, then failing to explicitly define thru common understanding.}}
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, title=Toward an Understanding of "Genetic Sociology" and Its Relationships to Medical Sociology and Medical Genetics in the Educational Enterprise.
, volume=125
, issue=2
, page=222-235
, magazine=Education
, publisher=Project Innovation, Inc.
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, passage=As the technology improves, there is a possibility to reprogram adult stem cells for therapeutic cloning without "passing it thru " the preimplantation embryo, thus negating current ethical challenges to such research.}}
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, passage=Going thru a great crisis of self-analysis, especially in relation to job, school, work, students.
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, magazine=American Indian Quarterly
, publisher=University of Nebraska Press
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, passage=Myths and Legends of the Pimas of Arizona as received by J. William Lloyd from Comalk-Hawk-Kih (Thin Buckskin) thru the interpretation of Edward Hubert Wood.
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(UK, rare, regional, or, dialectal)
As an adjective true
is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a preposition thru is
.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)thru
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)citation, genre= , publisher=Trafford Publishing , isbn=9781426966132 , page=157 , passage=If you see thru' my eyes, you'd wish you weren't here, because all you will feel sadness and fear. It loneliness and sorrow if you see '''thru''' my eyes sit and talk to before you say goodbye. See ' thru my eyes and a tear you will see, I wish you could cry and cry with me. }}
