THE TRUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does the true mean? 

• THE TRUE (noun)
  The noun THE TRUE has 1 sense:

1. conformity to reality or actuality

  Familiarity information: THE TRUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THE TRUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conformity to reality or actuality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

the true; trueness; truth; verity

Context example:

he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities

Hypernyms ("the true" is a kind of...):

actuality (the state of actually existing objectively)

Attribute:

true (consistent with fact or reality; not false)

false (not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality)

 Context examples 

Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have not shut an eye since the tragedy, thinking, thinking, thinking, night and day, what the true meaning of it can be.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the beard of my father! but ye are whelps of the true breed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Additional observations, including from NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, will help to confirm the true nature of 55 Cancri e.

(Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-Earth, NASA)

You have the true descreeptive touch.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Its coat was the true wolf-coat.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not the true laughter.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Any part of a signal that is not the true or original signal but is introduced by the communication mechanism.

(Noise, NCI Thesaurus)

That way, it would be possible to detect if a criminal is lying or to know the true intentions of people trying to cross the border between two countries.

(The most reliable scientific model to date for detecting when a person is lying, based on thermography, University of Granada)

I am fond of history—and am very well contented to take the false with the true.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)