True
WordNet
adjective
(1) Accurately placed or thrown
"His aim was true"
"He was dead on target"
(2) Accurately fitted; level
"The window frame isn't quite true"
(3) Devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth
"True believers bonded together against all who disagreed with them"
(4) In tune; accurate in pitch
"A true note"
(5) Expressing or given to expressing the truth
"A true statement"
"Gave truthful testimony"
"A truthful person"
(6) Consistent with fact or reality; not false
"The story is true"
"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"- B. Russell
"The true meaning of the statement"
(7) Conforming to definitive criteria
"The horseshoe crab is not a true crab"
"Pythagoras was the first true mathematician"
adverb
(8) As acknowledged
"True, she is the smartest in her class"
noun
(9) Proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment
"Out of true"
verb
(10) Make level, square, balanced, or concentric
"True up the cylinder of an engine"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- concurring with a given set of facts; factually correct.
- A state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
- "A and B" is true if and only if "A" is true and "B" is true.
- Loyal, faithful.
- He’s turned out to be a true friend. (See below, "Compound Words and Terms")
- Genuine.
- This is true Parmesan cheese.
- Legitimate.
- The true king has returned!
- Truth
- ...the true mention some form of accord with fact or reality.
Noun
true
- Those who are loyal or faithful.
- The fitment of a part in a machine such that their axes coincide
Verb
- To straighten.
- He trued the spokes of the bicycle wheel.