Pure vs. True

Pureadjective

Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.

Trueadjective

(of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.

‘This is a true story.’;

Pureadjective

Free of foreign material or pollutants.

Trueadjective

Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.

‘a true copy;’; ‘a true likeness of the original’;

Pureadjective

Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.

Trueadjective

(logic) 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.’;

Pureadjective

Mere; that and that only.

‘That idea is pure madness!’;

Trueadjective

Loyal, faithful.

‘He’s turned out to be a true friend.’;

Pureadjective

(of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.

Trueadjective

Genuine.

‘This is true Parmesan cheese.’;

Pureadjective

(phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

Trueadjective

Legitimate.

‘The true king has returned!’;

Pureadjective

(of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.

Trueadjective

Accurate; following a path toward the target.

Pureadverb

(Liverpool) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

‘You’re pure busy.’;

Trueadjective

Fair, unbiased, not loaded.

Purenoun

Feces, especially dog feces gathered in pre-20th-century England for use in the tanning of leather.

Trueadverb

(of shooting, throwing etc) Accurately.

‘this gun shoots true’;

Purenoun

alternative form of puer

Truenoun

(uncountable) The state of being in alignment.

Pureverb

(golf) to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately

‘Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.’;

Truenoun

Truth.

Pureadjective

Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.

‘The pure fetters on his shins great.’; ‘A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.’;

Truenoun

A pledge or truce.

Pureadjective

Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; - applied to persons.

‘Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience.’;

Trueverb

To straighten.

‘He trued the spokes of the bicycle wheel.’;

Pureadjective

Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; - applied to things and actions.

‘Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.’;

Trueverb

To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.

‘We spent all night truing up the report.’;

Pureadjective

Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.

‘Thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord.’;

Trueadjective

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.

Pureadjective

Of a single, simple sound or tone; - said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

Trueadjective

Right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the original.

‘Making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time.’;

Pureadjective

free of extraneous elements of any kind;

‘pure air and water’; ‘pure gold’; ‘pure primary colors’; ‘the violin's pure and lovely song’; ‘pure tones’;

Trueadjective

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.

‘Thy so true,So faithful, love unequaled.’; ‘Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie.’;

Pureadjective

without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;

‘an arrant fool’; ‘a complete coward’; ‘a consummate fool’; ‘a double-dyed villain’; ‘gross negligence’; ‘a perfect idiot’; ‘pure folly’; ‘what a sodding mess’; ‘stark staring mad’; ‘a thoroughgoing villain’; ‘utter nonsense’;

Trueadjective

Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian.

‘The true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.’; ‘True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.’;

Pureadjective

concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied;

‘pure science’;

Trueadjective

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.

Pureadjective

(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or gray or black

Trueadverb

In accordance with truth; truly.

Pureadjective

free from discordant qualities

Truenoun

proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment;

‘out of true’;

Pureadjective

used of persons or behaviors; having no faults; sinless;

‘I felt pure and sweet as a new baby’; ‘pure as the driven snow’;

Trueverb

make level, square, balanced, or concentric;

‘true up the cylinder of an engine’;

Pureadjective

in a state of sexual virginity;

‘pure and vestal modesty’; ‘a spinster or virgin lady’; ‘men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal’;

Trueadjective

consistent with fact or reality; not false;

‘the story is true’; ‘it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true’; ‘the true meaning of the statement’;

Pureadjective

not mixed;

‘pure oxygen’;

Trueadjective

not synthetic or spurious; of real or natural origin;

‘real mink’; ‘true gold’;

Trueadjective

conforming to definitive criteria;

‘the horseshoe crab is not a true crab’; ‘Pythagoras was the first true mathematician’;

Trueadjective

accurately placed or thrown;

‘his aim was true’; ‘he was dead on target’;

Trueadjective

devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth;

‘true believers bonded together against all who disagreed with them’;

Trueadjective

expressing or given to expressing the truth;

‘a true statement’; ‘gave truthful testimony’; ‘a truthful person’;

Trueadjective

worthy of being depended on;

‘a dependable worker’; ‘an honest working stiff’; ‘a reliable source of information’; ‘he was true to his word’; ‘I would be true for there are those who trust me’;

Trueadjective

not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed;

‘genuine emotion’; ‘her interest in people was unfeigned’; ‘true grief’;

Trueadjective

rightly so called;

‘true courage’; ‘a spirit which true men have always admired’; ‘a true friend’;

Trueadjective

determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles;

‘true north is geographic north’;

Trueadjective

having a legally established claim;

‘the legitimate heir’; ‘the true and lawful king’;

Trueadjective

in tune; accurate in pitch;

‘a true note’;

Trueadjective

accurately fitted; level;

‘the window frame isn't quite true’;

Trueadjective

reliable as a basis for action;

‘a true prophesy’;

Trueadverb

as acknowledged;

‘true, she is the smartest in her class’;