truth

Definition von truth im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: A pledge of loyalty or faith; Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy
There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.; The state or quality of being true to someone or something; faithfulness, fidelity
Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.; Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom
Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.; A now-outdated term for topness. (See also truth quark.); That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality
Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to truth.; True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality
The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.; {n} reality, certainty, faithfulness, honesty; {i} God (Christian Science); Sojourner Truth (1797-1883, born Isabella Baumfree) freed slave and American civil rights activist; That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or 'genuine' reality; A casualty of ISSUES MANAGEMENT Â (Added December 2002); Righteousness; true religion; Something that is held to be true; You say in truth in order to indicate that you are giving your honest opinion about something. In truth, we were both unhappy; conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities"; That which is real; that which exists, good or bad Truth is absolute, the same for everyone, never relative The same holds true for all untruth, falsehood, lying For example, spoiled food is not good for anyone; aggression hurts everyone; tyranny is not beneficial for anyone; love is good for everyone; oxygen is good and necessary for everyone; for Hegel, the whole; something that's fully related to everything else, understood in full context Elsewhere, in more poetic language, Hegel describes the truth as the "bacchanalian whirl" in which all individuals and events are caught up; Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like; The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity; HONESTY; CONFORMITY TO FACT OR REALITY; HAVING NO SHRED OF FALSEHOOD GOLDEN CHAINOFSALVATION CHOSEN, ELECT , FOREKNOWN, PREDESTINED , REGENERATED, CALLED, CONSCIOUS FAITH and CONVERSION, JUSTIFIED, SANCTIFIED, GLORIFIED!; The information recorded from the simulation of the tracking of the generated particles though the detector; The truth about something is all the facts about it, rather than things that are imagined or invented. I must tell you the truth about this business The truth of the matter is that we had no other choice In the town very few know the whole truth; propositions, statements, sentences, assertions and beliefs have been offered as appropriate bearers of truth or falsity Understanding truth is filled with difficulty Philosophers have explored the possibility that truth is: a correspondence between what we say and how things are; a matter of coherence between statements and a background of settled beliefs; an ideal limit which enquiry will approach; a feature of assertions which function well in enquiry or in life more generally; a matter of giving a truth definition for a language; a redundancy, because 'It is true that p' is equivalent to 'p'; or disclosedness of being Some of these theories are compatible and might be integrated in a more comprehensive theory On some accounts, each proposition is true or false on its own, while others adopt a holistic view The relation between meaning and truth is of central philosophical concern; The expression of actions that are essentially true; The most adequate comprehension of reality that man's mind and reason make accessible to him Man is fallible and can never become omniscient or absolutely certain that what he considers as certain truth is not error The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it B 113; HA 24,68; UF 94; "An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time " [DD]; That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality; If you say that there is some truth in a statement or story, you mean that it is true, or at least partly true. There is no truth in this story Is there any truth to the rumors?; is a mushy, hydra-headed word Everyone disputes its meaning Truth denotes a static assertion that changes from person to person, opinion to opinion, culture to culture Thus, truth is a hollow, manipulating word that professional value destroyers promulgate in their attempts to gain credibility for their deceptions and destructions; A truth is something that is believed to be true. It is an almost universal truth that the more we are promoted in a job, the less we actually exercise the skills we initially used to perform it. see also home truth, moment of truth; That which is Some Philosophical Links: The Yahoo Philosophy Index; A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals; a fact that has been verified; "at last he knew the truth"; "the truth is the he didn't want to do it"; a fact that has been verified; "at last he knew the truth"; "the truth is the he didn't want to do it" a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it" United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883) conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities; the exact consideration Truth is the exact time, place, form and event; {i} verity, fact; true statement, truism; fundamental reality, basic fact; The quality or being true; as: (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be; n An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance; H0 Type I Error Right decision; the quality of nearness to the truth or the true value; "he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass"; "the lawyer questioned the truth of my account"; the property of being true; Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness; You say to tell you the truth or truth to tell in order to indicate that you are telling someone something in an open and honest way, without trying to hide anything. To tell you the truth, I was afraid to see him. American abolitionist and feminist. Born into slavery, she escaped in 1827 and became a leading preacher against slavery and for the rights of women. In philosophy, the property of statements, thoughts, or propositions that are said, in ordinary discourse, to agree with the facts or to state what is the case. At least four major types of truth theory have been proposed: correspondence theories (see realism), coherence theories (see coherentism, idealism), pragmatic theories (see pragmatism), and deflationary theories. The latter group encompasses a wide variety of views, including the redundancy theory, the disquotation theory, and the prosentential theory. AUM Supreme Truth truth cinema Truth Sojourner to speak the truth Four Noble Truths; is that which is true about goodness, greatness etc; anchored yathâbhuuta: in reality, in truth, in its real essence This word has been used in a technical sense of meaning "an absolute truth " I translated it as "a truth anchored deep within his heart" so as to brings one's attention to the personal nature of truth in this practice, which is so often lost when people believe that Truth has to be absolute (ie related to everything, inside and out) and not within (ie related only to an understanding of what is true in one's experience); = Not to be found in the Doublespeak Dictionary or anywhere inside The Loop for that matter; United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883) conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities; A casualty of ISSUES MANAGEMENT (Added December 2002); n Â An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance Â; a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it"; To assert as true; to declare; n The quality of conformity with fact; correctness; accuracy The exactness of the correct who, what, where, when, how, why, mood and intention; Conformity to fact or reality We rely on the truth of scriptural prophecies "Sanctify them through thy truth " John 17 Truth: sincerity in action, character, and utterance the body of real thing a judgment that is true or accepted as true; - 1 = TROTH, 2 The character of being, or disposition to be, true or steadfast in allegiance; faithfulness, loyalty, constancy 3 Disposition to speak or act truly or sincerely; truthfulness, sincerity Formerly also, honesty, honourableness, uprightness, virtue 4 a Fact, facts; the matter or circumstance as it really is b The real thing, as distinguished from a representation or imitation; an antitype 5 True statement; report or account consistent with fact or reality b Mental apprehension of truth; knowledge 6 a Conformity with fact; faithfulness to reality; genuineness; authenticity b Accuracy of delineation or representation, esp in art or literature; lifelike quality 7 Conformity with a standard, pattern, or rule; accuracy, precision, correctness; esp accuracy of position or alignment ... Oxford Dictionary; {i} state or quality of being true; factualness; conformity with reality; conformity with a standard; sincerity, honesty; Begins as heresy; ends as superstition [T H Huxley]; n the state of being the case; fact a judgment, proposition, or idea that is accepted as true the property of being in accord with reality; verity; {n} amen; sooth; true
I'm sure that's true. - I'm sure that is the truth.; truthness; trewth
Truth or Dare: A game in which each player in turn must either truthfully answer a question, or perform a dare
truth be told: Used when admitting something one might otherwise lie about, e.g. to keep up appearances or be polite. From "if the truth should be told"
Well, certainly there are those who are more responsible than others - and they will be held accountable - but again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
truth function: A Boolean function whose value is interpreted as truth or falsity
truth or dare: A game where players take it in turn to perform a dare set by the other players, or answer a question truthfully put forth by them
truth quark: original name for the top quark
truth quarks: plural form of truth quark
truth table: a table showing all possible truth-values for an expression, derived from the truth-values of its components
truth tables: plural form of truth table
truth value: A value indicating to what extent a statement is true; in classical logic, these are the values "true" and "false"
truth values: plural form of truth value
truth will out: Truth will eventually and inevitably be discovered
truth will out: A mystery will always be solved, or a truth will always be discovered
Truth and Reconciliation Commission: the TRC in South Africa, a group of people chosen by the government to find out the truth about crimes commited during the time of apartheid, in order to help the people of South Africa to live together in peace
truth drug: {i} intravenous anesthetic drug that is believed to be able to cause a person to answer questions truthfully
truth drug: 'truth .serum a drug that is supposed to make people tell the truth
truth in advertising: honest marketing, promotions which can be believed
truth or dare: social game in which players choose between answering an embarrassing question and performing a difficult or ridiculous task
truth serum: an intravenous anesthetic drug that has a hypnotic effect; induces relaxation and weakens inhibitions; is believed to induce people to talk freely
truth serum: Any of various hypnotic or anesthetic drugs, such as scopolamine or thiopental sodium, used to induce a subject under questioning to talk without inhibition
truth table: A tabulation of all possible combinations of states at the inputs of a logic gate which will result in a specific logic state at the output of the gate
truth table: table that presents the values for which a function receives true values (Computers)
truth table: A method of determining the validity of certain types of arguments by recording all possible truth values in table form
truth table: A table listing the truth-values of a proposition that result from all the possible combinations of the truth-values of its components
truth table: A table of all 2n possible inputs to a Boolean function, together with the corresponding outputs
truth table: A table showing the input and corresponding output levels of a logic device or circuit for all possible combinations of inputs
truth table: A table that describes the behaviour of logic gates showing the output of a circuit for every possible input 2 4 5, p60
truth table: A tabular representation of a logic gate showing all the possible combinations
truth to tell: as a matter of fact, actually, the truth must be told
God's honest truth: Unquestionable, absolute truth
bend the truth: To change or leave out certain facts of a story or situation, generally in order to elicit a specific response in the audience
In relating the story to Julie, he decided to bend the truth just enough to make her think he had really been in danger.
bending the truth: Present participle of bend the truth
You don't think that claiming you have a 7-inch penis might be bending the truth just a little bit?.
bends the truth: Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bend the truth
bent the truth: Simple past tense and past participle of bend the truth
economical with the truth: not telling the whole truth, especially in order to present a false image of a situation; untruthful; lying. Often used with sarcasm or satire
I would be being economical with the truth if I were to tell you that I was enjoying myself.
first truth: A statement that is not proved but rather supposed or held as obvious, forming together with other such statements the basis of a system of statements obtained from them by inference; an axiom
half-truth: A deceptive statement, especially one that is only partly true, is incomplete, (misrepresents reality by telling part of the truth), or alters the time sequence of truths
in truth: truthfully, to tell the truth
kernel of truth: A core accuracy at the heart of a claim or narrative which also contains dubious or fictitious elements
It's about a young man (Billy Crudup) who tries to distill the true biography of his dying father (Albert Finney) by looking for the kernels of truth in the many tall tales he has told.''.
moment of truth: A deciding instant; the time when a test determines or makes it apparent whether something will succeed
The moment of truth comes when you try to start the engine you have just rebuilt.
moments of truth: plural form of moment of truth
nugget of truth: A small amount of truth in a generally untrue statement
Even in its moderate form, this argument presupposes that factual elements can be plucked out of panegyric as nuggets of truth isolated from the dross of empty verbiage.
ring of truth: The trust-inspiring sound, tenor, or impression of being truthful
It is fiction. But it has the absolute ring of truth.
stretch the truth: to exaggerate, often to the point where the truth is obscured or lost
stretched the truth: Simple past tense and past participle of stretch the truth
stretches the truth: Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stretch the truth
stretching the truth: Present participle of stretch the truth
tell the truth: Used to positively assert the frank honesty of an associated statement of set of statements; equivalent to "to tell the truth"
tell you the truth: Used to positively assert the frank honesty of an associated statement of set of statements; equivalent to "to you tell the truth"
there's a grain of truth in every joke: Every time when any person is kidding, he or she is actually disguising thoughts and emotions, either subconsciously or deliberately
to tell the truth: An attestation to the truthfulness and frankness of an associated statement
truthful: Honest, and always telling the truth
truthfully: Frankly
Truthfully, I didn't suspect a thing.
truthful: veracious
truthfulness: veracity
tell the truth: relay a true sentiment, tell a true story
ground truth: Ground truth is a term used in cartography, meteorology, analysis of aerial photographs, satellite imagery and a range of other remote sensing techniques in which data are gathered at a distance. Ground truth refers to information that is collected "on location". In remote sensing, this is especially important in order to relate image data to real features and materials on the ground. The collection of ground-truth data enables calibration of remote-sensing data, and aids in the interpretation and analysis of what is being sensed
God's truth: the absolute truth
Law of truth: Five books of Moses, Torah
Sojourner Truth: a female US slave (=a black person who was owned by a white person) with strong Christian beliefs, who was allowed to become a free person and who then travelled around the US teaching people about God and speaking publicly against slavery (=the practice of owning slaves) (1797-1883). orig. Isabella Van Wagener born 1797, Ulster county, N.Y., U.S. died Nov. 26, 1883, Battle Creek, Mich. U.S. evangelist and social reformer. The daughter of slaves, she spent her childhood as an abused chattel of several masters. After being freed in about 1827, she worked as a domestic in New York City (1829-43) and began preaching on street corners with the evangelical missionary Elijah Pierson. Adopting the name Sojourner Truth, she left New York to obey a "call" to travel and preach. Adding abolitionism and women's rights to her religious messages, she traveled in the Midwest, where her magnetism drew large crowds. At the start of the American Civil War she gathered supplies for black volunteer regiments. In 1864 she went to Washington, D.C., where she helped integrate streetcars and was received at the White House by Pres. Abraham Lincoln. After the war she worked for the freedmen's relief organization and encouraged migration to Kansas and Missouri
Sojourner Truth: (1797-1883, born Isabella Baumfree) freed slave and black American civil rights activist
Truthful: truthy
Truthfulness: truthiness
absolute truth: full and complete truth, something that is true regardless of belief
admitted the truth: confessed the truth, acknowledged the truth
bitter truth: painful truth, truth and all of the pain that goes with it
distorted the truth: twisted the truth, misrepresented the truth
distortion of truth: falsification, altering of the truth
element of truth: trace of the truth, part that is true
gospel truth: unquestionable truth, indisputable fact
grain of truth: ounce of truth, tiny bit of true information
half truth: statement that is only partly true, statement that mingles truth and falsehood told in an effort to deceive or mislead another
half-truth: a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead
half-truth: If you describe statements as half-truths, you mean that they are only partly based on fact and are intended or likely to deceive people. The article had been full of errors and half truths. a statement that is only partly true, especially one that is intended to keep something secret
home truth: an important truth that is unpleasant to acknowledge (as about yourself)
home truth: Home truths are unpleasant facts that you learn about yourself, usually from someone else. We held a team meeting and a few home truths were spelled out. A key or basic truth, especially one that is discomforting to acknowledge. a true but unpleasant fact that someone tells you about yourself
in search of truth: looking for that which is true
in truth: in all honesty, actually, as a matter of fact
in truth: in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book
literal truth: simple truth, naked truth, plain truth
moment of truth: time to test fate, decisive moment
moment of truth: a crucial moment on which much depends the moment in a bullfight when the matador kills the bull
moment of truth: If you refer to a time or event as the moment of truth, you mean that it is an important time when you must make a decision quickly, and whatever you decide will have important consequences in the future. Both men knew the moment of truth had arrived. = crunch
naked truth: plain truth
revealed the truth: told the truth, exposed the truth of the matter
seeker after truth: one who tries to discover the truth
solemn truth: grave truth, sad truth
speak the truth: say what is true
stretched the truth: told a lie, embellished the truth
suppress the truth: hide the truth, cover up the truth, conceal the truth
the moment of truth has come: the fateful and decisive moment is getting close, the deciding moment has come
the truth came out: the truth was discovered, the truth was revealed, there was no more doubt
the truth cannot be denied: it is impossible to conceal the truth, the truth and nothing but the truth
the truth is: sincerely, in all honesty, to be honest
the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth: only the complete and honest version of events; oath of honesty taken by a person being sworn into the courtroom
the whole truth and nothing but the truth: only the truth, it is all the truth
there is not a grain of truth in it: there's no ounce of truth in this, there is not tiny bit of true information in it, this is a cock-and-bull story
there's not a grain of truth in it: there's no ounce of truth in this, there is not tiny bit of true information in it, this is a cock-and-bull story
there's not a particle of truth in it: it is not true at all, that is completely false
there's not an ounce of truth in this: there's not a grain of truth in it, there is not tiny bit of true information in it, this is a cock-and-bull story
there's not one ounce of truth to it: there's not a grain of truth in it, there is not tiny bit of true information to this, this is a cock-and-bull story
to tell the truth: to be quite honest, honestly
told the truth: spoke honestly
truthful: Accurately depicting what is real
truthful: expressing or given to expressing the truth; "a true statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person"
truthful: {s} speaking the truth, honest; true; accurate, faithful to reality
truthful: If a person or their comments are truthful, they are honest and do not tell any lies. We've all learnt to be fairly truthful about our personal lives She could not give him a truthful answer. + truthfully truth·ful·ly I answered all their questions truthfully. + truthfulness truth·ful·ness I can say, with absolute truthfulness, that I did not injure her
truthful: conforming to truth; "I wouldn't have told you this if it weren't so"; "a truthful statement"
truthful: expressing or given to expressing the truth; "a true statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person
truthful: Full of truth; veracious; reliable
truthfully: with truth; "I told him truthfully that I had just returned from my vacation"; "he answered the question as truthfully as he could
truthfully: in a truthful manner
truthfully: in a true manner; honestly, candidly; accurately, in a manner that corresponds with reality
truthfulness: the quality of being truthful
truthfulness: {i} quality of being truthful; sincerity, honesty; condition of being accurate, faithfulness to reality
truths: plural of truth
without a particle of truth: without a bit of truth, not true at all