HALF-TRUTH

Meaning of HALF-TRUTH in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -ˌtrüth ]

noun

Date: 1658

1. : a statement that is only partially true

2. : a statement that mingles truth and falsehood with deliberate intent to deceive

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary. Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster. 2003

HALF-TRUTH — noun Date: 1658 a statement that is only partially true, a statement that mingles truth and falsehood with deliberate intent …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
HALF-TRUTH — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ noun : a partially true or partially fabricated statement made to deceive or to escape censure a public led …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HALF-TRUTH — /haf"troohth', hahf"-/ , n. , pl. half-truths /-troohdhz/ . 1. a statement that is only partly true, esp. one intended …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HALF TRUTH — statement that is only partly true, statement that mingles truth and falsehood told in an effort to deceive or mislead …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
HALF-TRUTH — Pronunciation: - ˌ trüth Function: noun Date: 1658 1 : a statement that is only partially true 2 : a …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
HALF-TRUTH — ■ noun a statement conveying only part of the truth.
Concise Oxford English vocab
HALF-TRUTH — [half-truth] n (1658) 1: a statement that is only partially true 2: a statement that mingles truth and falsehood with …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HALF-TRUTH — half-|truth BrE AmE ˈhɑːf |truːθ § ˈhæf-, ˌ•ˈ• AmE ˈhæf- ▷ half-|truths truːðz truːθs
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
HALF-TRUTH — noun a statement that gives only part of the truth, especially when it is intended to cheat sb : The …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HALF-TRUTH — ˈhalf-truth BrE AmE noun [countable] a statement that is only partly true, especially one that is intended to keep something …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HALF TRUTH — see half-truth
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HALF-TRUTH — also half truth ( half-truths) If you describe statements as half-truths , you mean that they are only partly based …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HALF TRUTH — see half-truth
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
HALF-TRUTH — also half truth (~s) If you describe statements as ~s, you mean that they are only partly based on fact …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
HALF-TRUTH — noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Forbes' book on Bonham is littered with half-truths, and, in some cases, outright lies. …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HALF TRUTH
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
HALF-TRUTH — See ↑ LIE 4
Longman Activator English vocab
HALF-TRUTH — сущ. полуправда полуправда - a * is often a falsehood полуправда часто не отличается от лжи
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HALF-TRUTH — n полуправда a half-truth is often a falsehood - полуправда часто не отличается от лжи
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HALF-TRUTH — сущ.полуправда
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
HALF TRUTH — (n) полуправда
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
HALF-TRUTH — n полуправда a ~ is often a falsehood - полуправда часто не отличается от лжи
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
HALF-TRUTH — n полуправда a half-truth is often a falsehood - полуправда часто не отличается от лжи
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
HALF TRUTH — полуправда
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
HALF TRUTH — полуправда
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
HALF-TRUTH — сущ. полуправда
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
HALF-TRUTH — сущ. полуправда
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
HALF-TRUTH — _n. полуправда
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
HALF-TRUTH — n. полуправда
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
HALF-TRUTH — полуправда
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
HALF-TRUTH — _n. полуправда
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера
HALF-TRUTH — полуправда, неполная правда
Англо-Русский юридический словарь
HALF-TRUTH — сущ. полуправда.
Англо-Русский социологический энциклопедический словарь
HALF-TRUTH — сущ. полуправда полуправда - a * is often a falsehood полуправда часто не отличается от лжи
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
TRUTH — I In philosophy, the property of statements, thoughts, or propositions that are said, in ordinary discourse, to agree with the …
Английский словарь Британика
HALF — I. ˈha]f, haa(ə)], hai], hȧ], hä]; in sense 2b the f is often lost when “past” follows noun ( plural …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TRUTH — ˈtrüth noun ( plural truths -üthz also -üths) Etymology: Middle English trewthe, treuthe, from Old English trēowth, trīewth; akin to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TRUTH — — truthless , adj. — truthlessness , n. /troohth/ , n. , pl. truths /troohdhz, troohths/ . 1. the true …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HALF — /haf, hahf/ , n. , pl. halves /havz, hahvz/ , adj. , adv. n. 1. one of two equal or …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HALF — I. ˈhaf, ˈhäf noun ( plural halves ˈhavz, ˈhävz) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English healf; akin to Old High …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TRUTH — noun righteousness; true religion. 2. truth ·noun fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness. 3. truth ·vt to assert as true; to declare. …
Webster English vocab
HALF — adj part; side; behalf. 2. half ·vt to halve. ·see halve. 3. half ·adj consisting of a moiety, or half; …
Webster English vocab
HALF — [half] n, pl halves [ME, fr. OE healf; akin to OHG halb half] (bef. 12c) 1 a: either of two …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
TRUTH — truth BrE AmE truːθ ▷ truths truːðz truːθs ▶ ˈ truth drug BrE AmE ▶ ˈ truth ˌ table BrE …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
HALF
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
TRUTH — / truːθ; NAmE / noun ( pl. truths / truːðz; NAmE /) 1. the truth [ sing. ] the true …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HALF — / hɑːf; NAmE hæf/ noun , determiner , pronoun , adverb ■ noun ( pl. halves / hɑːvz; NAmE hævz/) …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TRUTH — truth S1 W2 /truːθ/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: adverb : ↑ truly , ↑ truthfully ≠ ↑ untruthfully …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HALF — I. half 1 S1 W1 /hɑːf $ hæf/ BrE AmE predeterminer , pronoun , adjective [only before noun] 1 . …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
TRUTH — n. (pl. truths) 1 the quality or a state of being true or truthful (doubted the truth of the statement; …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HALF
Английский основной разговорный словарь
TRUTH — n. (pl. truths) 1 the quality or a state of being true or truthful (doubted the truth of the statement; …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HALF
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
TRUTH — n. (pl. truths) 1. the quality or a state of being true or truthful (doubted the truth of the statement; …
Oxford English vocab
HALF
Oxford English vocab
TRUTH — ( truths) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. The truth about something …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HALF — ( halves /hɑ:vz, AM hævz/ ) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TRUTH — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a kernel of truth ▪ There may be a kernel of truth in what he …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HALF — I. predeterminer COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a half moon (= looking like half a circle ) ▪ A half moon …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
TRUTH — [noun] [U] - the quality of being trueThere would seem to be some truth in what she says.There is no …
Cambridge English vocab
HALF
Cambridge English vocab
TRUTH — n. AUM Supreme Truth truth cinema Truth Sojourner to speak the truth Four Noble Truths
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
TRUTH — Synonyms and related words : a priori truth, absolute certainty, absolute credibility, absoluteness, accomplished fact, accuracy, actuality, actually, assurance, assuredness, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
TRUTH — n. Function: noun 1 Synonyms: VERACITY 1, truthfulness, veraciousness, veridicality, verity Related Words: precision, rightness, trueness; authenticity, genuineness, veritableness; candor …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary

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