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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
true
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dream comes true (=something you want happens)
▪ I’d always wanted to go to Africa and at last my dream came true.
a nightmare comes true (=something bad that someone fears actually happens)
▪ The company's worst financial nightmare has now come true.
a real/true hero
▪ The real heroes were the guys who fought in the front lines.
a true account
▪ The book is a true account of his life and death.
a true story
▪ ‘Schindler’s List’ tells the true story of Oskar Schindler.
an accurate/true picture
▪ Our aim is to build an accurate picture of the needs of disabled people.
an accurate/true reflection
▪ These reports were not an accurate reflection of existing attitudes.
be true to your ideals (=to behave in the way that you believe is right)
▪ Stick to your principles and be true to your ideals.
exact/precise/true nature
▪ The exact nature of the problem is not well understood.
found...true vocation
▪ At 17 she found her true vocation as a writer.
good/perfect/true etc likeness
hold true/good
▪ Twenty years on, his advice still holds good.
it is certainly true/possible etc
▪ It is certainly true that there are more courses on offer.
sb's wish comes true
▪ His wish came true when he was called up to play for England.
sb’s real/true identity
▪ The true identity of the author was not revealed until 100 years later.
sb’s real/true motive
▪ What were his true motives for offering her the job?
sb’s true potential (=their full potential)
▪ Malaysia only showed glimpses of their true potential in the final stages of the tournament.
sb’s/sth’s true meaning
▪ Children understand the true meaning of these words.
the actual/true extent
▪ Rescue workers still do not know the true extent of the disaster.
the converse was true
▪ Some teachers welcomed the change; but for the majority of teachers, the converse was true.
the opposite is the case/is true
▪ People believe the sun moved around the earth, but Copernicus showed that the opposite was the case.
the reverse is true (=you owe me)
▪ I owe you nothing. If anything, the reverse is true.
true love (=real love)
▪ She felt that she had finally found true love.
true love
true north
true or false
▪ Please decide whether the following statements are true or false.
true/real happiness (=having all the qualities which happiness should have)
▪ At last, she found true happiness with a man she loved.
true/real joy
▪ How can I find true joy in life?
your true/real self (=your real character)
▪ At last he had revealed his true self.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
certainly
▪ The same was certainly true of me, although my role was clearly less significant.
▪ But one thing is certainly true: Where two can tango, three almost always fail.
▪ This is certainly true when they deal with stories near home.
▪ And it is certainly true that these earnings differentials have had a tendency to diminish in the past.
▪ It is certainly true that a few generalisations can be made about the attitudinal functions of some components of intonation.
▪ That much is certainly true enough.
▪ This is certainly true of approval committees for thesis and dissertation proposals.
especially
▪ This is especially true of elderly people in mental handicap hospitals who have lived in a closed world all their lives.
▪ This is especially true for those in entrepreneurial enterprises.
▪ This is especially true for those growing up at the time, like my own children.
▪ This is especially true in acquisition or merger situations, where there are no shared corporate values.
▪ This is especially true if a small area only has been tessellated.
▪ But I find it especially true now.
▪ This is especially true if the group starts from scratch with no designated roles or previous experience of working together.
▪ This is especially true of original and futuristic ideas.
particularly
▪ This is particularly true within areas such as avionic systems and component diagnostics.
▪ This is particularly true of adolescent boys, he says, and who could argue with that?
▪ This was particularly true when it was rich in scented meadowsweet as at Wicken.
▪ This is particularly true for those of us for whom bending over is a form of aerobics.
▪ This is particularly true when articulating curved or flowing forms.
▪ That was particularly true of two losses -- Minnesota and Wyoming -- in which the Aztecs did not compete strongly.
▪ That is particularly true on containing nuclear arsenals.
probably
▪ Nevertheless, although generalizations arrived at by legitimate inductions can not be guaranteed to be perfectly true, they are probably true.
▪ I think that is probably true.
▪ Scientific knowledge is not proven knowledge, but it does represent knowledge that is probably true.
▪ It is probably true that this effect is a consequence of population oscillations rather than chaos per se.
▪ That was probably true, from her point of view.
▪ Most of the generalisations one could make are probably true for a lot of other languages as well.
▪ It is probably true to say that these new sensations were at first quite undetected, as such, by himself.
too
▪ He never had his own desk on principle, as he said all desks had chains attached. Too true.
▪ Travelers to Prague may find the comparison with Paris starting to ring all too true when it comes to hotel prices.
▪ It's a cliche to say people are living in fear, but sadly it's all too true in Larne.
▪ Mr. Waldegrave I fear that on health, as on other issues, that is all too true.
▪ This may be only too true, but if so, why advertise the fact?
■ NOUN
cost
▪ Compare carefully the costs of these link ups with the true costs of bringing people together physically.
▪ Once they expose the true cost of their subsidies, elected officials often decide that some are inappropriate.
▪ The true cost of allowing unfettered insider dealing has become less important than what people think the true costs to be.
▪ Meanwhile, economists argue about whether the true cost of healthcare has even gone down under managed care.
▪ If drivers paid the true costs of road use, they might switch to less congested times, or make fewer journeys.
▪ The true cost of allowing unfettered insider dealing has become less important than what people think the true costs to be.
▪ A second problem with traditional cost accounting systems was that they misled managers about the true cost of products and services.
extent
▪ Environmentalists welcomed the move, claiming that some fishermen in Cornwall and the South-West were disguising the true extent of the problem.
▪ The true extent of the phenomenon is not at present clear, but not all sense-spectra are of the metaphorical sort.
▪ But yesterday Ferguson, along with club doctor Francis McHugh, decided to clarify the true extent of Sharpe's problem.
▪ But while! exercising the prerogatives of superpower, he never seemed to recognise the true extent of its responsibilities.
▪ There is some question as to the true extent of s 2.
▪ The Bank recognises that these data indicate rather than properly represent the true extent of relative inequality between countries.
▪ Pedestrians under the influence of alcohol also feature but the true extent of this is not know.
▪ Purchasers may not understand the extent of their liabilities and the true extent of the help they might receive in an emergency.
friend
▪ If you have found true friends, you have real treasure.
▪ James was also tremendously loyal to people he cared about, and in him I found a true friend.
▪ A last gift from a true friend.
▪ This path isolates me well from casual visitors, but true friends are not deterred.
▪ There were not many in the Agency that he would call a true friend.
▪ She seems very selfish to us and not a good example of a true friend.
▪ But you have a true friend.
▪ I suppose she wept for lost gladness and the relinquishment of true friends.
identity
▪ Because as the days and weeks unfold so will the true identity of her baby.
▪ Veterinary examination revealed the true identity of the horse and led to a spell in Maidstone jail for Willett.
▪ One of the most compelling elements in the myth is the necessity of concealing your true identity.
▪ They did not even know his true identity.
▪ Users can appear as they wish and can disguise their true identity or characteristics in many ways.
▪ Others were painted black co disguise their true identity or perhaps consigned to the attic, there to lie forgotten.
▪ As a soldier under the Whites there was a price on his head; some one would soon discover his true identity.
love
▪ Usual stories about true love at last.
▪ Roth, of course, remains eternally wedded to his one true love, his writing.
▪ Unhappily-married Cape Town journalist Toni Balser finds true love against a backdrop of gruesome township violence.
▪ Love is strange, and true love is strange but true.
▪ The older woman is the villainess of the piece and true love triumphs in the end.
▪ He cried out that April was his true love, and they married there and then.
▪ One such dispute was settled by Marie with a verdict apparently asserting that true love can not exist between man and wife.
▪ I knew that true love, real love, could not make its way through the mountain passes to North Chittendon.
meaning
▪ The right legal answer, based on the true meaning of the Act, must be found and applied.
▪ A man needed special experience and insight to work true meanings out of certain murky remarks.
▪ Even so, those with grace always know how to be graceful and she would probably understand the true meaning of the gesture.
▪ It was too soon for anyone to understand the true meaning of what had happened.
▪ I still can't get a clear definition on the true meaning of it all.
▪ Given the dichotomous speech model that Richard uses, one need only invert the sense to discover the true meaning.
▪ She understood the true meaning of a phrase she had often heard but never defined: in her element.
nature
▪ No one should be forced into conformity which conflicts with their true nature.
▪ Few living humans understand the true nature of time and its laws.
▪ This obscures the true nature of Eliot's life, just as it diminishes his poetry.
▪ This is the true nature of democracy and of all distributed governance.
▪ Ruling class ideology distorts the true nature of society and serves to legitimate and justify the statusquo.
▪ I hid her existence from the world as carefully and surely as I hid my own true nature.
▪ The true nature of this revolt is still obscure.
▪ But the attacks often distort the true nature of a candidate.
self
▪ The true self must be understood as engaging in the world in a specific way as part of a community.
▪ Or maybe my true self is yearning to be something like Mary Matalin.
▪ They were never more their true selves than when they were together.
▪ The true self goes into hiding to avoid the psychic annihilation caused by expressing itself without being able to get a response.
▪ Yet again he has shown his true self when unharnessed from the mature guidance of his former wife and manager Cheryl.
▪ Do I reveal my true self through my golf?
▪ In the dark, Seth would be his true self, his human face off but his dark glasses still on.
▪ What Pipher uncovers in her therapy sessions are girls who have drowned their true selves as surely as Ophelia did.
sense
▪ Its narrowness and the buttress across the street above your head, give a true sense of the medieval Malá Strana.
▪ Far from being vacuous storytelling, myth in its true sense is a communion with the deepest truths of existence.
▪ We are not really operating a gallery in the true sense of the word, with additional stock behind the scenes.
▪ A true sense of mastery of the task at hand.
▪ But these are not canoeists in the true sense.
▪ Hazony's history is revisionist in the truest sense.
▪ Prisoners passed through the place so fast that it ceased to be a camp in the true sense altogether.
▪ This enhances a true sense of personal integrity and self-worth.
story
▪ Mr Utterson knows that the true story will not be believed, so he invents a story to tell the police.
▪ You could fill a book with such hair-curling true stories of blighted lives and justice traduced.
▪ Is that the true story, young man?
▪ Rather, they are the latest developments in the true story of Clancy and the man who authorities say defrauded him.
▪ Here is a true story of one chance remark.
▪ The true story of the Mobro, as documented by the Wall Street Journal, was less cosmic but more sinister.
value
▪ I fear we may be in danger of knowing the price of everything but failing to appreciate its true value.
▪ Its true value is in its subjectivity.
▪ On the other hand it can bring about reconciliation between families and friends and a new appreciation of life's true values.
▪ Once those properties hit the market, their true value will be found out.
▪ Therefore, there is a probability of 0.68 that the true value of beta will lie between 0.541 and 0.807.
▪ Unlikely as it may sound, the conductor program could prove the true value of practice.
▪ That is to say, the range within which the true value will lie with a probability of 0.95.
▪ If Gilliland is correct, the true value of the mean solar radius is more nearly 959.8 seconds of arc.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a dream come true
▪ But winning a honeymoon just months before your wedding is a dream come true.
▪ For him, being aboard the raft was a dream come true.
▪ For Ruth it will be a dream come true as she becomes the youngest female licensed amateur rider in history.
▪ It really is a dream come true.
▪ It would be a dream come true to be able to observe my favourite species in a more natural situation.
▪ That would be a dream come true, but everybody around the country wants to win it.
▪ Winning a number was a dream come true for Deborah Fullford of Cambridge, the final Massachusetts woman selected.
not ring true
▪ None of her explanations rang true.
▪ One of the jurors said that Hill's explanation just didn't ring true.
▪ There was something odd about her story, something that didn't ring true.
▪ But this would only be a story, and would not ring true.
▪ Frankly, it just does not ring true.
▪ Something does not ring true ... but what can we do?
▪ Stories that she lightheartedly tipped him off his surfboard do not ring true of Diana who was totally in awe of him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ True Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God.
▪ True courage is facing danger when you are afraid.
▪ True, my family was wealthy, but my parents taught me to work hard.
▪ As far as Gabby was concerned this was true love.
▪ At last he had found true happiness.
▪ Being a true Red Sox fan, he never missed a game.
▪ Even the U.S. is not really a true democracy.
▪ Everything I've said is true.
▪ He was a good partner and a true friend to me.
▪ It is difficult to measure the true value of these amenities to the local community.
▪ No, honestly, It's a true story.
▪ She makes the dance look easy - the mark of a true professional.
▪ She says her parents arrived here as refugees, but I know that's not true.
▪ The true significance of the General's offer has yet to be established.
▪ The movie is based on a true story.
▪ The table top doesn't look completely true.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And it was also true that uniforms got people elected.
▪ Did he still consider me his best friend and true blood brother?
▪ It was imaginatively true also in commerce and industry, in religious and intellectual life, and in the arts.
▪ Or is no one, since all that connecting and downloading is taking the place of true, human contact?
▪ She had borne it all alone, not knowing it wasn't true.
▪ That sounds too good to be true.
▪ This is true whether the end product is a manufactured item for sale or a production process for producing it.
II.adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
come
▪ The nice thing about personal computer technology is that these kinds of wishes often come true.
▪ This was like a nemesis, like a nightmare come true, even the wording of the headline.
▪ What kind of work would give you the chance to see those dreams come true?
▪ The issue then becomes: How do you make your dream come true?
▪ Your dream can come true if your plan has these three key elements, fitting together in one coherent whole.
▪ Do you have a plan for helping you see that dream come true?
▪ What hope do you have for seeing those dreams come true?
▪ Today their dreams have come true partially because they burned their bridges and never looked back.
hold
▪ This holds true no matter what size or kind of business you decide to start.
▪ Seventy-four percent of work-inhibited students were boys, a pattern that held true across the grades from elementary school through high school.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a dream come true
▪ But winning a honeymoon just months before your wedding is a dream come true.
▪ For him, being aboard the raft was a dream come true.
▪ For Ruth it will be a dream come true as she becomes the youngest female licensed amateur rider in history.
▪ It really is a dream come true.
▪ It would be a dream come true to be able to observe my favourite species in a more natural situation.
▪ That would be a dream come true, but everybody around the country wants to win it.
▪ Winning a number was a dream come true for Deborah Fullford of Cambridge, the final Massachusetts woman selected.
not ring true
▪ None of her explanations rang true.
▪ One of the jurors said that Hill's explanation just didn't ring true.
▪ There was something odd about her story, something that didn't ring true.
▪ But this would only be a story, and would not ring true.
▪ Frankly, it just does not ring true.
▪ Something does not ring true ... but what can we do?
▪ Stories that she lightheartedly tipped him off his surfboard do not ring true of Diana who was totally in awe of him.
too good to be true/to last
tried and tested/trusted/true
▪ After all, these methods are tried and tested.
▪ Alternatively you could pick up a pinstripe suit from tried and trusted Marks & Spencer.
▪ Disposable workers Modern methods of super-exploitation, tried and tested in the Third World, are coming home to industrialized countries.
▪ Look for the more creative solution - the tried and true don't always bring the best results.
▪ Others stick to the tried and tested method with a sponge.
▪ Some parts of the blueprint will have been tried and tested, and found to be reliable.
▪ The genre is tried and true, of course, from Animal House to Reality Bites.
▪ These have the advantage of being tried and tested and involve lower cost.
Related phrases:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
True

True \True\ (tr[udd]), a. [Compar. Truer (tr[udd]"[~e]r); superl. Truest.] [OE. trewe, AS. tre['o]we faithful, true, from tre['o]w 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.]

  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.

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

    Making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  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.

    Thy so true, So faithful, love unequaled.
    --Milton.

    Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie.
    --Herbert.

  4. Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian.

    The true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
    --John i. 9.

    True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.
    --Pope.

  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.

    Note: True is sometimes used elliptically for It is true.

    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.

True

True \True\, adv. In accordance with truth; truly.
--Shak.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
true

Old English triewe (West Saxon), treowe (Mercian) "faithful, trustworthy, honest, steady in adhering to promises, friends, etc.," from Proto-Germanic *treuwaz- "having or characterized by good faith" (cognates: Old Frisian triuwi, Dutch getrouw, Old High German gatriuwu, German treu, Old Norse tryggr, Danish tryg, Gothic triggws "faithful, trusty"), from PIE *drew-o-, a suffixed form of the root *deru-/*dreu- "be firm, solid, steadfast" (cognates: Lithuanian drutas "firm," Welsh drud, Old Irish dron "strong," Welsh derw "true," Old Irish derb "sure"), with specialized sense "wood, tree" and derivatives referring to objects made of wood (see tree (n.)).\n

\nSense of "consistent with fact" first recorded c.1200; that of "real, genuine, not counterfeit" is from late 14c.; that of "conformable to a certain standard" (as true north) is from c.1550. Of artifacts, "accurately fitted or shaped" it is recorded from late 15c. True-love (n.) is Old English treowlufu. True-born (adj.) first attested 1590s. True-false (adj.) as a type of test question is recorded from 1923. To come true (of dreams, etc.) is from 1819.

true

"make true in position, form, or adjustment," 1841, from true (adj.) in the sense "agreeing with a certain standard." Related: Trued; truing.

Wiktionary
true

  1. (context of a statement English) conform to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct. adv. (context of shooting, throwing etc English) accurately. n. 1 truth. 2 The state of being in alignment. v

  2. 1 To straighten. 2 To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.

Related phrases:
WordNet
true

  1. adj. 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, true(p)]

  8. not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief" [syn: genuine, true(a), unfeigned]

  9. rightly so called; "true courage"; "a spirit which true men have always admired"; "a true friend" [syn: true(a)]

  10. determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles; "true north is geographic north" [syn: true(a)]

  11. having a legally established claim; "the legitimate heir"; "the true and lawful king" [syn: true(a), lawful, rightful(a)]

  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"

  15. [also: truest, truer]

true

  1. n. proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment; "out of true"

  2. [also: truest, truer]

true

  1. adv. as acknowledged; "true, she is the smartest in her class" [syn: admittedly, avowedly, confessedly]

  2. [also: truest, truer]

true

  1. v. make level, square, balanced, or concentric; "true up the cylinder of an engine" [syn: true up]

  2. [also: truest, truer]

Related phrases:
Wikipedia
True

True or TRUE may refer to:

  • Truth, the state of being in congruence with fact or reality
True (Spandau Ballet album)

True is the third studio album by British band Spandau Ballet. It was released in March 1983 on Chrysalis Records. While Spandau Ballet's first two albums earned them European popularity, True made them worldwide stars and was heavily influenced by jazz, soul and R&B. It reached number 1 on the UK Albums Chart, the Top 20 on the US Billboard 200, and charted in numerous other countries around the world. The title track spent four weeks at number 1 in the UK Singles Chart and went to number 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was also Spandau Ballet's first album to be recorded outside of London (at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas).

Other singles from the album included "Gold" (a no. 2 UK hit and a Top 30 hit in the US), "Lifeline", "Communication", and "Pleasure". Later album releases by the band never equalled the success of True.

"True" was remastered on CD and stereo SACD in 2003 for its 20th anniversary. In June 2010, a special edition was released on 2 CDs and DVD as part of the 2010 Spandau Ballet reissues series, featuring remastered 12" remixes and B-sides, plus a live concert.

In 2008, the album was given away free with copies of the Daily Mail newspaper.

True (L'Arc-en-Ciel album)

True is the fourth album by L'Arc-en-Ciel, released on December 12, 1996. It was the band's last record with sakura on drums. It reached number one on the Oricon chart and sold over a million copies, being certified by the RIAJ. It was also named one of the top albums from 1989-1998 in a 2004 issue of the music magazine Band Yarouze.

True (Spandau Ballet song)

"True" is a song by the English band Spandau Ballet. It was released on 14 April 1983 as the third single from their third studio album of the same name. The song was written by band member Gary Kemp.

The song was a huge worldwide hit, peaking at number one in the UK Singles Chart on 30 April 1983 for four weeks, becoming the sixth biggest selling single of the year, and charting highly in 20 other countries. It is Spandau Ballet's biggest hit and their only major hit in the U.S., reaching number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in the autumn of 1983 and topping the adult contemporary chart for one week.

In 1985, the band performed the song during Live Aid. A new mix by Tony Swain and Gary Kemp was released in 2002 on the compilation album Reformation.

On 30 April 2008, the single celebrated its 25th anniversary, and in honour, EMI released a brand new True EP on 5 May 2008, which included the original single, the new mix found on Reformation and the remastered album version, plus a live recordings of "True" and "Gold" from the last show of the group's 1983 tour at Sadlers Wells.

A notable omission is that Spandau Ballet bassist Martin Kemp did not perform on the track, rather a bass synthesizer was used instead. However, Kemp would play in his capacity for future live performances.

True (Ryan Cabrera song)

"True" is the second single Ryan Cabrera released from his 2004 studio album, Take It All Away. It peaked at #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #8 on the Pop 100 in January, 2005. The music video for True reached #4 on the TRL countdown.

True (magazine)

True, also known as True, The Man's Magazine, was published by Fawcett Publications from 1937 until 1974. Known as True, A Man's Magazine in the 1930s, it was labeled True, #1 Man's Magazine in the 1960s. Petersen Publishing took over with the January 1975, issue. It was sold to Magazine Associates in August 1975, and ceased publication shortly afterward.

High adventure, sports profiles and dramatic conflicts were highlighted in articles such as "Living and Working at Nine Fathoms" by Ed Batutis, "Search for the Perfect Beer" by Bob McCabe and the uncredited "How to Start Your Own Hunting-Fishing Lodge." In addition to pictorials ("Iceland, Unexpected Eden" by Lawrence Fried) and humor pieces ("The Most Unforgettable Sonofabitch I Ever Knew" by Robert Ruark), there were columns, miscellaneous features and regular concluding pages: "This Funny Life," "Man to Man Answers," " Strange But True" and "True Goes Shopping."

True (Mika Nakashima album)

True is Mika Nakashima's first Japanese album. In contrast to the typical Japanese J-Pop and Western Pop artist, this album was one in which Mika established a sound that would become her trademark for future albums: a mature, ' Adult Contemporary'-influenced mixture of smooth jazz and soft pop.

True topped the Oricon Album Chart for three straight weeks, selling 1 million copies within that time span, and has since sold over 1,173,534 copies. It won Nakashima the Album of the Year Award at the 2003 Japan Gold Disc Awards.

True (TrinityRoots album)

True is the debut album by New Zealand band, TrinityRoots, released in 2001.

True (biologist)
True (TRU album)

True is the third studio album released by rap group, TRU. It was released on July 25, 1995 for No Limit Records and was produced by Beats By the Pound. This was the group's first major released after two independent albums and it managed to make it to #25 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and #14 on the Top Heatseekers.

True (George Strait song)

"True" is a song written by Marv Green and Jeff Stevens, and recorded by American country music artist George Strait. It was released in June 1998 as the second single from his album, One Step at a Time. The song peaked at number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts and reached number-one on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.

True (dating service)

True was an online dating service that was founded in 2003 by entrepreneur Herb Vest. True.com is no longer an online dating site.

Its original name was TrueBeginnings.com, but the company felt that this name was too limiting, as company leadership wanted to expand the company into other markets one day. In 2004 the domain name True.com was purchased and the company changed its name. True is known for its strict policies regarding background checks, which are used to ensure that members are not felons or married. Vest reports 16 million total members, as of May 2007, but it is unclear how many of them are actual paying or active members. Of that, an independent analysis shows an estimated 3.8 million unique visits to the site per month.

True (Brandy song)

"True" is a song by American recording artist Brandy Norwood recorded for her fifth studio album Human (2008). Originally written and composed by RedOne along with Claude Kelly for entertainer Michael Jackson, the song deals with betrayal and heartbreak. A pop- R&B ballad that features instrumentation by the piano and strings, True" deals with trust issues lyrically. The protagonist sings to an indifferent love interest, wondering whether she is his only one and whether he loves her.

The song garnered generally mixed to positive reviews by contemporary music critics who considered it one of the album's strongest ballads. but felt it was overproduced. Following the release of Human, "True" charted at number 18 on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles, a chart composed of 25 positions that represent songs that are making progress to chart on the main R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart. In 2009, the song was part of Norwood's set list for her Just Human Tour across the world.

True (artist)

TRUE, formerly known as David John Riggins (b. 1968, Los Angeles, California) is an American artist, designer, and filmmaker of German-Russian, African-American, and Blackfoot descent who lives and works in New York City. He began using the word “TRUE” in place of his birth name in the mid-1990s. While his early work incorporated elements of illustration, graphic design, and animation, his current focus is filmmaking.

He began his professional art career in the late 1980s as a set painter for Roger Corman Studios in Venice Beach, California. He moved to New York in 1991 to study at Sarah Lawrence College, and then transferred to The Art School of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (BFA, 1996). He first gained international recognition for a series of non-permissional site-specific “guerrilla” installations on the streets of Los Angeles and New York City, and in NYC’s subway system (1993–1994), which were done anonymously. When tracked down for comment by the press, he used a pseudonym (“str8up” [pronounced “straight up”]) both because he wanted to preserve his anonymity so that the focus would remain on the work and not himself, and also to protect himself from prosecution for “tampering [and] theft of government property.” The motivation for these projects was the belief that the “art world” was unnecessarily ethnocentric and elitist, and that art could have a much broader audience if it could also be seen outside the constraints of “official” art institutions.

His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), in Brooklyn, New York, Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, and the Centro Cultural de Belém, in Lisbon, Portugal, as part of the Experimentadesign Bienal de Lisboa. He has taught or spoken about art, new media, and design at institutions such as The Cooper Union, The New School University, Parsons The New School for Design, Pratt Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, and Sarah Lawrence College, among others.

He has been interviewed and / or had his work featured in: All Things Considered (National Public Radio); Arc Design Magazine (Brasil) (discusses TRUE’s work in the Lisbon Biennial); AREA (a Phaidon design book that named TRUE as one of 100 of the world’s “most innovative emerging graphic designers”); BBC-TV (UK); Crain’s New York Business; Deseret News; Eye Magazine (in which Stefan Sagmeister refers to TRUE’s subway stickers as “the one piece of graphic design that truly influenced me”); GalleryBeat (TV); How Design Magazine; I.D. Magazine (who named TRUE as one of the “I.D. Forty” [40 of the world’s “leading design innovators”]); Los Angeles Times; M.A.P. Magazine (Australia); Manhattan File Magazine; Men’s Club Magazine (Japan); Metropolis Magazine (who named TRUE as a “rising star of the new millennium”); New York Daily News; New York Magazine; New York Times; Pix Magazine; The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist; Sagmeister: Made You Look,; Stefan Sagmeister's TED Talk, “Happiness By Design”; Surface Magazine; Time Out New York; The Village Voice, and others. An educational CD-ROM video game for which TRUE did illustration, animation, and UI design won the top award, the “Palm d’Or,” at the MILIA Interactive Conference in Cannes, France.

He has lived in Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn, since 1999, where he has received numerous public art commissions, and where he co-organizes a free annual children’s film festival called The KIDflix Film Fest of Bed-Stuy!.

True (Jaimeson song)

"True" is a song produced and released as a single by Jaimeson in January 2003. The song features Angel Blu as vocalist, with Jaimeson providing the rapping. The single peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles Chart.

True (cigarette)

True is a brand of cigarettes marketed by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

True cigarettes, like Parliament cigarettes, have a recessed filter. However, whereas Parliaments have nothing in the recessed space, Trues have a plastic piece (round with a triangle in the middle and radials which extend to the outside) which prevents the top of the cigarette from being broken, torn, or crushed as any other cigarette can. The cigarette, when first introduced, was full flavored. It was later available in a reduced tar and nicotine version. It was acquired by Reynolds American in 2015 when it purchased Lorillard Tobacco Company.

True (EP)

True is the first extended play (EP) by American recording artist Solange Knowles, first released on November 27, 2012 digitally through Terrible Records. Following the release of her second studio album Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams (2008), Knowles announced that she had parted ways with Interscope Geffen A&M after releasing just one album on the label, and further revealed that she had chosen to go an independent route, eventually signing with Terrible Records. In 2009, Knowles began the recording of a studio album, during which she suffered a " breakdown" due to the amount of time and emotion she was putting into the recording process.

A neo soul album, True contains an eclectic sound that takes influence from PBR&B, new wave music, dance, 1980s pop, and electronica, whilst the extended play's production is characterized as containing '80s references, keyboards and African percussion. The recording process took three years and was handled by Knowles and producer Dev Hynes. Together the pair produced, wrote and composed all of the songs, a decision Knowles made due to their chemistry, friendship and work relationship.

Upon release True received highly positive reviews from music critics, who complimented its musical direction, particularly praising its individuality and '80s nostalgia; other critics compared the album to the work of Madonna. Commercially the EP saw little success, debuting at one hundred and fifty seven on the US Billboard 200 as well as charting within the top sixty of the albums charts in Denmark and Sweden. The album was promoted with the release of three singles including " Losing You" and was further promoted with a tour of the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, France and Germany.

True (surname)

True is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alfred Charles True, American educator and agriculturist
  • Allen Tupper True, American artist
  • Andrea True, American pornographic actress and disco singer
  • Arnold E. True, American naval officer
  • Arthur L. True, AMerican politician
  • Charles Kittredge True, American clergyman
  • Clarence True, American architect
  • David True (born 1942), American painter,
  • Delbert Leroy True, American archaeologist
  • Everett True, British music journalist
  • Frederick W. True, American biologist
  • Katie True, American politician
  • Laurel True, American artist
  • Marion True, American curator
  • Rachel True, American actress
  • Ronald True, English murderer
  • Steve True, American sportscaster
True (Roy Montgomery and Chris Heaphy album)

True is an album by guitarists Chris Heaphy and Roy Montgomery, released on 6 April 1999 through Kranky Records.

True (Avicii album)

True is the debut studio album by the Swedish DJ and electronic music producer Avicii, released on 13 September 2013 by PRMD Music and Island Records. The album features collaborations with Nile Rodgers and Adam Lambert, Audra Mae, Salem Al Fakir, Aloe Blacc and Mike Einziger. Avicii said that sonically, the album would move away from his electronic dance and house music oriented sound of his previous releases, by incorporating elements of other genres such as country music.

True was preceded by the release of the Aloe Blacc-assisted and Aileen Marie Quinn-written " Wake Me Up!" that topped several charts around the world, and " You Make Me", which features vocals from Swedish recording artist Salem Al Fakir. The album has been commercially successful, peaking within the top ten of at least ten countries. True debuted at number two in the United Kingdom during September 2013, and has subsequently re-peaked at number two in February 2014. On 24 March 2014, Avicii released a remixed version of the album, titled True (Avicii by Avicii). A 2-disc edition, comprising the standard 10-track "True" alongside the remix album was released featuring a brand new cover, on June 2014.

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Usage examples of "true".

Since they were aboard unlawfully, any punishment meted out to them was an assault, and would be the subject of a criminal charge once the men were back with their true captain.

For when it is stated, for instance, that the German Spitz dog unites more easily than other dogs with foxes, or that certain South American indigenous domestic dogs do not readily cross with European dogs, the explanation which will occur to everyone, and probably the true one, is that these dogs have descended from several aboriginally distinct species.

In understandably emphasizing the importance and the urgency of eco-holistic fit, the holists have absolutized the Lower-Right quadrant, which, in thus sealing it off from any true integration, condemns it to the fate of all fragments.

The experiments proving that the leaves are capable of true digestion, and that the glands absorb the digested matter, are given in detail in the sixth chapter.

They have targeted Glenn Abies because he stands for a way of living that we as members of the White Race believe in and hold to be true.

The clergy may, it is true, have shown wisdom in acceding to any terms of restoration.

Please be aware that these principles are an absolutely essential foundation for understanding the rest of this book, for using the tools of Kabbalah that it presents, and for achieving the connection with the Light that is our true purpose in life.

This is true of everything a man does from such persuasive faith, whether he is acknowledging God, worshiping Him at home or in church, or doing good deeds.

These words are read out by the priest in a deep voice to all who are about to observe the Holy Supper, and are listened to by them in full acknowledgment that they are true.

He is not acoward for perceiving the true extent of the forces arrayed against us.

I came to you in most serious earnest, imagining, as I find true, that your son had never dared to acquaint you with a match so much inferior to him in point of fortune, though the reputation of the lady will suffer it no longer to remain a secret.

I certainly did not act towards them with a true sense of honesty, but if the reader to whom I confess myself is acquainted with the world and with the spirit of society, I entreat him to think before judging me, and perhaps I may meet with some indulgence at his hands.

Such a conception, appearing in a rude state of culture, before the lines between science, religion, and poetry had been sharply drawn, recommending itself alike by its simplicity and by its adaptedness to gratify curiosity and speculation in the formation of a thousand quaint and engaging hypotheses, would seem plausible, would be highly attractive, would very easily secure acceptance as a true doctrine.

The true reason was my addiction to nicotine, which caused me to have the stress in the first place.

We could not, I adjudged, shifting my knees lower on his barrel, gain the trees before true day.