Truer

Definition

true /tru:/ adj ( -r, -st ) ၁။ မွန္ေသာ။ …မွန္။ a true story ❍ Is it true you're getting married? ❍ British theatre is seriously underfunded — and the same is true of/for the film industry. ❍ ‘We've always found somewhere to stay before. ’ ‘True, but we may not always be so lucky. ’ ❍ Unfortunately what you say is all/ only too true. ❍ Her story simply doesn't ring (ie sound) true. ❍ You never said a truer word! ၂။ စစ္မွန္ေသာ။ ေျဖာင့္မွန္ေသာ။ …စစ္။ true love ❍ The frog is not a true reptile. ❍ He claimed to be the true heir. ❍ She's a true professional. ၃။ … မွန္။ ခြၽတ္စြပ္။ ေျဖာင့္။ a true copy of a document ❍ The painting is a true likeness of her. ❍ His aim was true. ❍ Do newspapers give us a true analysis of what's going on in the world ? ၄။ ~ (to sth) … မွန္။ …စစ္။ စစ္စစ္။ တကယ့္။ a true friend/ patriot ❍ remain true to one's principles ❍ be true to one's word (ie do as one has promised). ၅။ တည့္[ေသာ]။ (အထိုင္၊ အေနအထား) က်[ေသာ]။ Is the wheel true? ❍Make sure the post is true before the concrete sets. adv ၁။ မွန္မွန္ကန္ကန္။ တိတိက်က်။ She spoke truer than she knew. ၂။ တည့္တည့္။ The arrow flew straight and true to its mark. ❏ come true [ IDM ] တကယ္ျဖစ္လာသည္။ အဟုတ္ျဖစ္လာ သည္။ It's like a dream come (ie that has come) true. ❏ out of true [ IDM ] အံမက်။ မတည့္။ The door is out of true. ❏ true-blue adj အ႐ိုးစြဲေနေသာ။ a true-blue ‘Tory supporter’. ❏ one's true colours [ IDM ] ( often derog ) စ႐ိုက္မွန္။ Once he achieved power he showed (himself in) his true colours. ❏ true-life adj တကယ့္အျဖစ္အပ်က္။ a true-life adventure. ❏ true north n [U] မူမွန္ေျမာက္။ ❏ true to sth [ IDM ] (ထံုးစံ၊ ပံုမွန္ စသည္) အတိုင္း။ True to form (ie As usual), he arrived late. ❍ The movie is very true to life (ie realistic). ❍ Plants grown from seed are not always true to type (ie exactly like the plant that produced the seed).

Examples

1. The film is based on a true story.
2. They used to guarantee housing for all workers
3. but that’s no longer true.
4. [be/hold true (for someone/something)] : The students are excited and the same holds true for their teachers.
5. [true of someone/something] : It rains a lot in the northwest
6. and that is especially true of Cumbria.
7. Well
8. true
9. he is rich
10. but is he happy?
11. True
12. I suppose I’ve never thought about it like that.
13. [it’s true (that)] : It’s true that my car cost a lot
14. but it’s a good investment.
15. [that may/might be true
16. but] : ‘They say they are spending record amounts on public education.’ ‘Well
17. that may be true
18. but there are still shortages of teachers.’
19. Lara never shows her true feelings.
20. The study shows that the true cost of nuclear energy is much higher than most people think.
21. Lynn has always been a true friend to me.
22. Curry was a true champion in every sense.
23. Nelson has a true passion for literature.
24. [true to] : I will always be true to you.
25. [remain/stay true (to someone/something)] : Through the years
26. Doug remained true to his family.