true
adjective
being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false.
trued
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past participleof true.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof true.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
trueadjectivebeing in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false.
Example Sentences
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With the pyramids the Egyptians created gigantic scientific instruments for measuring the solar year, building their sides trued to the four cardinal directions.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you've had your Banshee cylinder trued and welded, put the crank into the bottom case and rotate the crank using the rods to do so.
From Time Magazine Archive
If we have two squares that are trued and have their edges parallel, we may test them for being at a right angle by trying them together as in Figs.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
This is trued up on a lathe and encased in a brass tube.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams
The plates are very readily fixed to the circular table h, and the edge of the flange trued up much quicker than by the ordinary means of chipping.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
