Truth vs Money - What's the difference?
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The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
(label) Faithfulness, fidelity.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
(label) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
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, title= Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
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, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}
Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
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That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
* 1820 , (John Keats), (Ode on a Grecian Urn)
(label) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
* 1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice)
Topness. (See also truth quark.)
(obsolete) To assert as true; to declare, to speak truthfully.
A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
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, title= A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
Wealth.
An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
A person who funds an operation.
(as a modifier) Of or pertaining to money ; monetary.
As nouns the difference between truth and money
is that truth is the state or quality of being true to someone or something while money is a legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.As a verb truth
is (obsolete|transitive) to assert as true; to declare, to speak truthfully.truth
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Alternative forms
* trewth (obsolete)Noun
(order of senses) (en-noun)- Alas! they had been friends in youth, / But whispering tongues can poison truth .
- The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.
Magician’s brain, passage=The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.}}
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John Mortimer(1656?-1736)
- Ploughs, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork.
- Beauty is truth', ' truth beauty, - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Synonyms
* SeeAntonyms
* falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, untruth, half-truthDerived terms
* half-truth * if truth be told * tell the truth * truthful * truthiness * truthless * truth or dare * truth serum * truthyVerb
(en verb)- Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. — Ford.
- 1966', ''You keep lying, when you oughta be '''truthin
' — Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
See also
* (wikipedia)Statistics
*money
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(money)Noun
(wikipedia money)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.}}
