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truth
English
Alternative forms
- trewth (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English tr?owþ, tr?ewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþ? (“promise, covenant, contract”), from Proto-Indo-European *dr?- (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true +? -th. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr??th, IPA(key): /t?u??/
- Rhymes: -u??
Noun
truth (usually uncountable, plural truths)
- True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
- Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
- The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
- (archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
- 1797-1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
- Alas! they had been friends in youth, / But whispering tongues can poison truth.
- 1797-1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
- (obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
- Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
- Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon 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.
- (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
- (physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:truth
Antonyms
- falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, drivel, untruth, half-truth
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
truth (third-person singular simple present truths, present participle truthing, simple past and past participle truthed)
- (obsolete, transitive) 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.
- c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
- (nonstandard, intransitive) To tell the truth.
- 1966, Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
- You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'
- 1966, Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
See also
- truth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- truth at OneLook Dictionary Search
- truth in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- truth in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Hurtt
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axiom
English
Etymology
From Middle French axiome in the 15th century, from Latin axi?ma (“axiom; principle”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (axí?ma, “that which is thought to fit, a requisite, that which a pupil is required to know beforehand, a self-evident principle”), from ????? (axió?, “to think fit or worthy, to require, to demand”), from ????? (áxios, “fit, worthy”, literally “weighing as much as; of like value”), from ??? (ág?, “I drive”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?aks.?.?m/
- (General American) enPR: ?k's??m, IPA(key): /?æks.i.?m/
- Hyphenation: ax?i?om
Noun
axiom (plural axioms or axiomata) (the latter is becoming less common and is sometimes considered archaic)
- (philosophy) A seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved.
- (logic, mathematics, proof theory) A fundamental assumption that serves as a basis for deduction of theorems; a postulate (sometimes distinguished from postulates as being universally applicable, whereas postulates are particular to a certain science or context).
- An established principle in some artistic practice or science that is universally received.
Synonyms
- (philosophy, mathematics): axioma (now rare)
- (logic, mathematics): postulate
Hypernyms
- (logic): well-formed formula, wff, WFF
Hyponyms
- (mathematics): axiom of choice, axiom of infinity, axiom of pairing, axiom of power set, axiom of regularity, axiom of union, completeness axiom, parallel axiom
Holonyms
- (logic): formal system
Derived terms
- axiomatic
- axiomatical
- axiomatically
- axiomatise, axiomatize
- axiomatisation, axiomatization
Translations
See also
References
- axiom in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- axiom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Further reading
- axiom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- amoxi
Czech
Noun
axiom m
- axiom
Derived terms
- axiom výb?ru m
Related terms
- axiomatický
- axiomatizovat
- axiomatizace
Swedish
Noun
axiom n
- axiom
Declension
Related terms
- axiomatisk
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