true

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
发音 tro͞o

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pledge or truce. obsolete
  2. The state of being in alignment. uncountable
    — Some toolmakers are very careless when drilling the first hole through work that is to be bored, claiming that if the drilled hole comes out of true somewhat it can be brought true with the boring tool.
  3. Truth. obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To straighten (something that is supposed to be straight).
    — He trued the spokes of the bicycle wheel.
  2. To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust (often followed by up).
    — We spent all night truing up the report.
形容词 adj.
  1. Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
    — This is a true story.
  2. Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.; As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
    — True, I have only read part of the book, but I like it so far.
  3. Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
    — a true copy
  4. Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
    — "A and B" is true if and only if "A" is true and "B" is true.
  5. Loyal, faithful.
    — He’s turned out to be a true friend.
  6. Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
    — The true king has returned!
  7. Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.; Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false.
    — true sparrows (Passer)
  8. Accurate; following a path toward the target. usually
    — Whate'er the weapon, still his aim was true, Nor e'er in vain the fatal bullet flew.
  9. Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
    — Is my bike wheel true? It feels unsteady.
  10. Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
    — Let Z#95;t be twice the value of a true die shown on the t-th toss.
  11. based on actual historical events.
    — true crime
副词 adv.
  1. Accurately; in alignment. not-comparable
    — This gun shoots true.
  2. Truthfully. archaic,not-comparable
    — I tel you true my hart is ſwolne with wrath, On this ſame theeuish villain Tamburlain.

词形变化

truer comparative more true comparative truest superlative most true superlative tru alternative,Internet troo alternative,nonstandard tr00 alternative,Internet,Leet trew alternative,obsolete tru alternative,Internet troo alternative,nonstandard tr00 alternative,Internet,Leet trew alternative,obsolete tru alternative,Internet troo alternative,nonstandard tr00 alternative,Internet,Leet trew alternative,obsolete trues present,singular,third-person trueing participle,present truing participle,present trued participle,past trued past tru alternative,Internet troo alternative,nonstandard tr00 alternative,Internet,Leet trew alternative,obsolete trues plural

词汇关系

衍生词
in true out of true true-up
相关词
truth

词源

词源 1
From Middle English treowe, trew, trewe, triwe, true, trwe, from Old English trēowe, trīewe (“faithful, true”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (“faithful, true”), from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewH- (“firm, hard, true”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Alemannic German trüüw (“loyal”), Dutch trouw (“loyal, true”), German treu (“loyal, true”), Luxembourgish trei (“loyal”), Danish tryg (“safe, secure”), Faroese and Icelandic tryggur (“faithful, loyal; safe”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish trygg (“safe, secure”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃 (triggws, “true; faithful, loyal”); also Irish dearbh (“sure”), Old Prussian druwis (“faith”), Ancient Greek δροόν (droón, “firm”)), extension of *dóru (“tree”) (possibly also Proto-Slavic *sъdorvъ (“healthy”) from the same root). More at tree. For the semantic development, compare Latin robustus (“tough”) from robur (“red oak”).
词源 2
Variant of truce.
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