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Found 5 hits - Term: true, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
true \true\, adv.
   in accordance with truth; truly. --shak.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
true \true\ trudd, a. compar. truer trudd"~er;
   superl. truest. oe. trewe, as. tre'owe faithful, true,
   from tre'ow fidelity, faith, troth; akin to ofries. triuwe,
   adj., treuwa, n., os. triuwi, adj., trewa, n., d. trouw, adj.
    n., g. treu, adj., treue, n., ohg. gitriuwi, adj., triuwa,
   n., icel. tryggr, adj., dan. tro, adj.  n., sw. trogen,
   adj., tro, n., goth. triggws, adj., triggwa, n., trauan to
   trust, opruss druwis faith. cf. trow, trust, truth.
   1913 webster
   1. conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state
      of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or
      the like; as, a true relation or narration; a true
      history; a declaration is true when it states the facts.
      1913 webster

   2. right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern;
      exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the
      original.
      1913 webster

            making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time. --sir
                                                  w. scott.
      1913 webster

   3. steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince,
      or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false,
      fickle, or perfidious; as, a true friend; a wife true to
      her husband; an officer true to his charge.
      1913 webster

            thy so true,
            so faithful, love unequaled.          --milton.
      1913 webster

            dare to be true: nothing can need a lie. --herbert.
      1913 webster

   4. actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended;
      genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of
      country; a true christian.
      1913 webster

            the true light which lighteth every man that cometh
            into the world.                       --john i. 9.
      1913 webster

            true ease in writing comes from art, not chance.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

   5. biol. genuine; real; not deviating from the essential
      characters of a class; as, a lizard is a true reptile; a
      whale is a true, but not a typical, mammal.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   note: true is sometimes used elliptically for it is true.
         1913 webster

   out of true, varying from correct mechanical form,
      alignment, adjustment, etc.; -- said of a wall that is not
      perpendicular, of a wheel whose circumference is not in
      the same plane, and the like. colloq.

   a true bill law, a bill of indictment which is returned
      by the grand jury so indorsed, signifying that the charges
      to be true.

   true time. see under time.
      1913 webster
see also:
truer truest trow trust truth out of true 
a true bill true time time 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
true
     adj 1: 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"
            ant: false
     2: not synthetic or spurious; of real or natural origin; "real
        mink"; "true gold" syn: real
     3: conforming to definitive criteria; "the horseshoe crab is
        not a true crab"; "pythagoras was the first true
        mathematician"
     4: accurately placed or thrown; "his aim was true"; "he was
        dead on target" syn: dead on target
     5: devoted sometimes fanatically to a cause or concept or
        truth; "true believers bonded together against all who
        disagreed with them"
     6: expressing or given to expressing the truth; "a true
        statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person"
        syn: truthful ant: untruthful
     7: worthy of being depended on; "a dependable worker"; "an
        honest working stiff"; "a reliable source of information";
        "he was true to his word"; "i would be true for there are
        those who trust me" syn: dependable, honest, reliable,
         truep
     8: not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine
        emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true
        grief" syn: genuine, truea, unfeigned
     9: rightly so called; "true courage"; "a spirit which true men
        have always admired"; "a true friend" syn: truea
     10: determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than
         the magnetic poles; "true north is geographic north"
         syn: truea
     11: having a legally established claim; "the legitimate heir";
         "the true and lawful king" syn: truea, lawful, rightfula
     12: in tune; accurate in pitch; "a true note" syn: on-key
     13: accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite
         true" syn: straight
     14: reliable as a basis for action; "a true prophesy"
     n : proper alignment; the property possessed by something that
         is in correct or proper alignment; "out of true"
     adv : as acknowledged; "true, she is the smartest in her class"
           syn: admittedly, avowedly, confessedly
     v : make level, square, balanced, or concentric; "true up the
         cylinder of an engine" syn: true up
     also: truest, truer
see also:
false real dead on target truthful untruthful dependable 
honest reliable truep genuine truea 
unfeigned lawful rightfula on-key straight 
admittedly avowedly confessedly true up truest 
truer 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
298 moby thesaurus words for "true":
   christian, absolute, acceptable, accepted, accommodate, accord,
   accurate, accurately, active, actual, adapt, adjust, adjust to,
   apodictic, applicable, appropriate, approved, ardent, arrowlike,
   ascertained, assimilate, attested, attune, authentic,
   authenticated, authoritative, be realized, befitting, bona fide,
   bound, candidly, canonical, careful, categorically true, certain,
   certified, clear, clear and distinct, clear as day, come to pass,
   come true, committed, compliant, conclusive, confirmed, conforming,
   conscientious, consistent, constant, conventional, coordinate,
   correct, correctly, corroborated, creditable, customary, cut to,
   de facto, dead straight, decisive, dedicated, definite,
   demonstrated, dependable, desired, determinate, determined,
   devoted, devout, direct, documentary, duteous, dutiful, effectual,
   equalize, established, estimable, evangelical, even, exact,
   exactly, expressive, factual, faithful, faithworthy, fast, finicky,
   firm, fit, fitting, fix, fixed, flat, flinty, for real, frankly,
   fussy, gear to, genuine, happen, harmonize, high-principled,
   historical, homologate, homologize, honest, honest-to-god,
   honestly, honorable, horizontal, immovable, in a line,
   incorruptible, indicative, indubitable, ineluctable, inevitable,
   inflexible, inviolable, just, key to, kosher, lawful, legal,
   legitimate, level, liege, linear, literal, loyal, make plumb,
   make uniform, marble-constant, mathematical, meaningful, measure,
   meticulous, mindful, natural, necessary, normal, not in error,
   objectively true, observant, occur, of the faith, orthodox,
   orthodoxical, overnice, perfectly sure, place, positive,
   practicing, precise, predestined, predetermined, proper,
   proportion, proved, proven, punctilious, punctual, put in tune,
   real, realistic, received, reconcile, rectify, rectilineal,
   rectilinear, regardful, regular, regulate, reliable, resolute,
   responsible, right, right-minded, rightful, ruler-straight,
   scriptural, scrupulous, set, set right, settled, significant,
   similarize, sincere, sincerely, smooth, sot, sound, stable,
   standard, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, straight,
   straight-cut, straight-front, straight-side, straightforwardly,
   streamlined, strict, substantial, substantiated, suggestive,
   suitable, sure, sure-enough, sync, synchronize, tailor, take,
   tested, textual, to be trusted, traditional, traditionalistic,
   tried, tried and true, trim to, true as gospel, true up, true-blue,
   true-meaning, true-speaking, true-tongued, truehearted, truly,
   trustable, trustworthy, trusty, truth-bearing, truth-declaring,
   truth-desiring, truth-filled, truth-guarding, truth-loving,
   truth-passing, truth-speaking, truth-telling, truthful, truthfully,
   tune, typical, unadulterated, unambiguous, unbending, unbent,
   unbowed, unbroken, unconfuted, uncurved, undeflectable,
   undeflected, undeniable, undenied, undesigning, undeviating,
   undissembled, undistorted, undoubted, unequivocal, unerring,
   unerroneous, unfailing, unfallacious, unfalse, unfeigned,
   unflappable, uninterrupted, univocal, unmistakable, unmistaken,
   unperfidious, unquestionable, unrefuted, unshaken, unswerving,
   untreacherous, unturned, unvarnished, unwavering, unyielding,
   upright, valid, validated, veracious, veridical, verifiable,
   verified, veritable, vertical, very, whole-hearted, worthy




[5] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
true, wv
  zip codes: 25988


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