- fact
- n.something that is true
1) to ascertain, establish a fact
2) to check, confirm, verify a fact
3) to cite; collect, gather, marshal; present (the) facts
4) to classify; evaluate, interpret (the) facts
5) to face (the) facts
6) to distort, twist; embellish, embroider (the) facts
7) to ignore a fact
8) an accepted, established; cold, dry, hard, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, irrefutable, unquestionable; firsthand fact
9) a basic, essential; historic; proven; statistical; well-known fact; the bare facts
10) a fact that + clause (it's a fact that some officials are corrupt)
reality11) to distinguish fact from fiction
12) in fact
misc.13) a question of fact; the facts of life
* * *[fækt]embellishembroider (the) factsestablish a factestablishedfirsthand facthistoricincontestableincontrovertibleindisputableinterpret (the) factsirrefutablepresent (the) factsprovenstatisticalthe bare factsthe facts of lifeunquestionableunquestionableverify a factwell-known fact['misc. '] a question of fact['reality'] to distinguish fact from fiction['something that is true'] to ascertaina basican acceptedin factto checkto citeto classifyto distortto face (the) factsto ignore a facta fact that + clause (it's a fact that some officials are corrupt)
Combinatory dictionary. 2013.
