truth

UK /tɹuːθ/ US /tɹuːθ/
noun 6verb 3

Definitions

noun

1

True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.

The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.

The truth depends on, and is only arrived at, by a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.

2

Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.

There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.

As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.

3

The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.

4

Faithfulness, fidelity.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; / But whispering tongues can poison truth; […]

5

A pledge of loyalty or faith.

verb

1

To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.

c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.

You were sitting with your family Thanksgiving, belly full of turkey and pie, surrounded by the love of your extended crime family, but your initial instinct was to truth a slur at Tim Walz?

2

To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.

A concentrated region of the agricultural test area was intensively ground truthed, not only to identify the crop types, but equally important, also to begin to determine the parameters controlling the radar energy reflected from a crop type at a particular stage of growth.

As is shown in this table, APG images in the validation subset were only truthed with box models, and the 29P images in this subset were never truthed at all.

3

To tell the truth.

You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'

noun

1

An entry posted on the Truth Social platform.

The app's design looks like a clone of Twitter. Users can create a profile that shows who they're following. You're able to comment, share and like posts, which are called Truths.

And yet, I still wasn’t adequately prepared for the immersive experience of scrolling through hundreds of his Truths and ReTruths. Even for Trump, this feed manages to shock.

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