Found 3 items, similar to fact.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: fact
fakta, hal, kebenaran, kenyataan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: fact
fact
n 1: a piece of information about circumstances that exist or
events that have occurred;
“first you must collect all
the facts of the case”
2: a statement or assertion of verified information about
something that is the case or has happened;
“he supported
his argument with an impressive array of facts”
3: an event known to have happened or something known to have
existed;
“your fears have no basis in fact”;
“how much of
the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell”
4: a concept whose truth can be proved;
“scientific hypotheses
are not facts”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Fact
Fact
\Fact\ (f[a^]kt), n. [L. factum, fr. facere to make or do.
Cf.
Feat,
Affair,
Benefit,
Defect,
Fashion, and
-fy.]
1. A doing, making, or preparing. [Obs.]
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A project for the fact and vending
Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. --B.
Jonson.
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2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that
comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.
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What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am
not able to conjecture. --Evelyn.
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He who most excels in fact of arms. --Milton.
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3. Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all
the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.
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4. The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing;
sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer
of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a
thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds
with false facts.
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I do not grant the fact. --De Foe.
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This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is not
true. --Roger Long.
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Note: The term fact has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in
contrast with law; as, attorney at law, and attorney in
fact; issue in law, and issue in fact. There is also a
grand distinction between law and fact with reference
to the province of the judge and that of the jury, the
latter generally determining the fact, the former the
law. --Burrill --Bouvier.
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Accessary before the fact, or
Accessary after the fact.
See under
Accessary.
Matter of fact, an actual occurrence; a verity; used
adjectively: of or pertaining to facts; prosaic;
unimaginative; as, a matter-of-fact narration.
Syn: Act; deed; performance; event; incident; occurrence;
circumstance.
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