Functioning and True

noun

• Process or manner of functioning or operating.
  • usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
  • synonyms: operation, performance

verb

• Perform as expected when applied.
  • usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
  • synonyms: function, work, operate, go, run
• Serve a purpose, role, or function.
  • usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
  • synonyms: serve, function
• Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
  • usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
  • synonyms: officiate, function

adjective

• Performing or able to perform its regular function.
  • usage: "a functioning flashlight"

noun

• Proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment.
  • usage: "out of true"

verb

• Make level, square, balanced, or concentric.
  • usage: "true up the cylinder of an engine"
  • synonyms: true up

adjective

• Consistent with fact or reality; not false.
  • usage: "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true- B. Russell; "the true meaning of the statement"
• Accurately placed or thrown.
  • usage: "his aim was true"; "he was dead on target"
  • synonyms: dead on target
• Devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth.
  • usage: "true believers bonded together against all who disagreed with them"
• Expressing or given to expressing the truth.
  • usage: "a true statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person"
  • synonyms: truthful
• Conforming to definitive criteria.
  • usage: "the horseshoe crab is not a true crab"; "Pythagoras was the first true mathematician"
• Worthy of being depended on.
  • usage: "a dependable worker"; "an honest working stiff"; "a reliable sourcSFLe of information"; "he was true to his word"; "I would be true for there are those who trust me"
  • synonyms: dependable, honest, reliable
• Not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed.
  • usage: "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief"
  • synonyms: genuine, unfeigned
• Rightly so called.
  • usage: "true courage"; "a spirit which true men have always admired"; "a true friend"
• Determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles.
  • usage: "true north is geographic north"
• Having a legally established claim.
  • usage: "the legitimate heir"; "the true and lawful king"
  • synonyms: lawful, rightful
• In tune; accurate in pitch.
  • usage: "a true note"
  • synonyms: on-key
• Accurately fitted; level.
  • usage: "the window frame isn't quite true"
  • synonyms: straight

adverb

• As acknowledged.
  • usage: "true, she is the smartest in her class"
  • synonyms: admittedly, avowedly, confessedly

• (a.) Genuine; real; not deviating from the essential characters of a class; as, a lizard is a true reptile; a whale is a true, but not a typical, mammal.
• (n.) Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian.
• (n.) Right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the original.
• (adv.) In accordance with truth; truly.
• (n.) Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false, fickle or perfidious; as, a true friend; a wife true to her husband; an officer true to his charge.
• (n.) Conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate or the like; as, a true relation or narration; a true history; a declaration is true when it states the facts.

• Name Meaning: Loyal
• Name Origin: English