truth

Енглески[уреди]

Truth (disambiguation) на Википедија

Алтернативни облици[уреди]

(obsolete)

(sometimes when referring to religious truth)

Етимологија[уреди]

Од Средњи Енглески truthe, trewthe, treowthe, од Стари Енглески trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), од Пра-Германски *triwwiþō (“promise, covenant, contract”), од Пра-Индо-Европски *drū- (“tree”), од Пра-Индо-Европски *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true +‎ -th. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Исландски tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).

Изговор[уреди]

enPR: trōōth, МФА^(кључ): /tɹuːθ/
(US) МФА^(кључ): /t͡ʃɹuːθ/
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Риме: -uːθ

Именица[уреди]

truth (usually uncountable, plural truths)

True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.
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  1835, Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Henry Nelson Coleridge, quoting Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge‎^[1], volume II, →ISBN, strana 19:
  The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.
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  2014 јун 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist‎^[2], volume 411, number 8892, archived from the original on 4 November 2018:
  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 The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts.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”.
Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.
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  2012 јануар 1, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, strana 31:
  As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.
(archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
- (Can we date this quote?) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  Alas! they had been friends in youth, / But whispering tongues can poison truth.
(obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Mortimer
  Ploughs, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork.
- 1840, Joseph Whitworth, "A Paper on Plane Metallic Surfaces or True Planes":
  The process of grinding is, in fact, regarded as indispensable wherever truth is required, yet that of scraping is calculated to produce a higher degree of truth than has ever been attained by grinding.
That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
The truth is what is.

Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to truth.
- 1820, John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
  Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
(countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.
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  1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice‎^[3], OCLC 38659585, OL 6087610M:
  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
(physics, dated) Topness. (See also truth quark.)