Trued vs Grued - What's the difference?
trued | grued |
(true)
(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
(grue)
(archaic) To be frightened; to shudder with fear.
A shiver, a shudder
* 1921 , , The Path of the King , chapter 9
* 1964', Geoffrey Jenkins, ''A '''Grue of Ice (title)
Any byproduct of a gruesome event, i.e. gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.
* 1958 , Samuel Youd, writing as John Christopher, The Caves of Night
* 1996, Linda Badley, Writing Horror and the Body [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=iaHQorgoqd4C&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&sig=0unz5oiZA5IURViNe75MsU7vHG4]
* 2002, Carole Nelson Douglas, Chapel Noir [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=ZZu4sl0P1EAC&pg=PA336&lpg=PA336&sig=dPR0ntE54xw-h3m6fByM0fgJiuc]
* 2004, Talbot Mundy, Guns of the Gods [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=PUCcyz2L1iwC&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&sig=REDDP_txW9FrUWEogxny6lZ4wUo]
A fictional predator that dwells in the dark.
* 1981 , Byte magazine (volume 6)
* 2009 , "Jas", Hazadous (SIC) Australian animals the GRUE.... your guide'' (on Internet newsgroup ''rec.travel.australia+nz )
* 2004 , "M.D. Dollahite", How would you imagine a grue?'' (on Internet newsgroup ''rec.games.int-fiction )
(philosophy) Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
* 1965 , , Fact, Fiction and Forecast ,
* 2007 , Michael Clark, Paradoxes from A to Z?
(linguistics) Green or blue, as a translation from languages such as Welsh that do not distinguish between these hues.
As verbs the difference between trued and grued
is that trued is (true) while grued is (grue).trued
English
Verb
(head)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)grued
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*grue
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) gruen. Probably from (etyl) gruwen or (etyl) gruwen (Dutch gruwen), both from (etyl) .Verb
(gru)Noun
(en noun)- There was a sharp grue of ice in the air.
Etymology 2
Noun
(-)- The butcher was covered in the accumulated grue of a hard day's work
- There was grue everywhere after the accident
- 'I've told you - it wasn't much. He tried to kiss me.' She smiled slightly. 'Just after he had shown me the family skeletons.' / 'What a lovely bit of grue !'
- Carrie'' is Cinderella in the body language of menstrual blood and raging hormones. King’s adolescent joy in grimaces and groans, the ''Mad magazine humor, and the staple of “grue ” hardly need mentioning.
- “[...] She is quite agreeable to gruesome ghost stories, but appalled by the lust for life.” / “I admit that I am surprised by how well she handles sheer grue , better than I.”
- “This is the grue ,” said Dick, holding his lantern high. / Its light fell on a circle of skeletons, all perfect, each with its head toward a brass bowl in the center.
Etymology 3
Probably from (gruesome); first used in Jack Vance's (1980).Noun
(en noun)- I managed to get into the house through the front once, but I was plunged into darkness and eaten by a monster called a grue .
- To find a grue , turn off the light at night, or go for a walk in a dark place (but carry a flashlight with you).
- Incidentally, the best official text description I know of is in Sorcerer, when you actually become a grue and visit a grue colony. IIRC, even that description is vague, but does cannonize(SIC) that they are large four-legged reptiles.
Etymology 4
. Coined by to illustrate concepts in the philosophy of science.Adjective
(Distinguishing blue from green in language) (-)- The grue property is defined as: x'' is grue if and only if ''x'' is green and is observed before the year 2000, or ''x is blue and is not observed before the year 2000.
- The unexamined emeralds cannot be both green and grue , since if they are grue and unexamined they are blue.