Word Finder - facts

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Something actual as opposed to invented.

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In this story, the Gettysburg Address is a fact, but the rest is fiction.

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Something which is real.

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Gravity is a fact, not a theory.

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Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.

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Let's look at the facts of the case before deciding.

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An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.

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There is no doubting the fact that the Earth orbits the Sun.

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Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.

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The facts about space travel.

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An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.

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Action; the realm of action.

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A wrongful or criminal deed.

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He had become an accessory after the fact.

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A feat or meritorious deed.

The simple facts would be so much more convincing!

I listed three facts conveyed to three different police agencies that she could call and confirm.

Slowly the facts were beginning to seep through the layer of shock.

Boris, speaking with deliberation, told them in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his own about the facts he was recounting.

I'll record the facts from my personal point of view, and my observation.

Their hypothesis explains so many facts.

All the facts are in flat contradiction to such conjectures.

Those are the plain and simple facts.

God, who is the cause of the concomitance of bodily and mental facts, is in truth the sole cause in the universe.

In Prince Andrew's eyes Speranski was the man he would himself have wished to be--one who explained all the facts of life reasonably, considered important only what was rational, and was capable of applying the standard of reason to everything.

Often it's a judgment thing—the court weighs all the facts and makes a determination.

Let's look at the facts, make a decision and close the case.

We may shmuck around the facts a little and lie when we threaten him but we're still the good guys, remember?

Coldly, without looking at her son, she sent for her husband and, when he came, tried briefly and coldly to inform him of the facts, in her son's presence, but unable to restrain herself she burst into tears of vexation and left the room.

But Len didn't know all the facts, and that wasn't fair.

The facts of consciousness are the only facts which, to begin with, we are justified in asserting to exist.

Several minutes were consumed in silent admiration before they noticed two very singular and unusual facts about this valley.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

He rose to leave and then added, Whatever the age of that skeleton, the facts still remain that someone swapped the bones, someone stole the finger and 'metalman29' was offering an inflated price for the mine.

The boys in suits were keeping most of the facts to themselves, much to Leland Anderson's dismay.

The facts would seem incredible were they not vouched for by Theodoret, who knew him personally (Historia religiosa, c. 26).

A "General Society of Mayflower Descendants" was organized in 1894 by lineal descendants of passengers of the "Mayflower" to "preserve their memory, their records, their history, and all facts relating to them, their ancestors and their posterity."

From these facts it appears that the anterior three divisions of the head differ strongly from the posterior three, which greatly resemble thoracic segments; hence it has been thought possible that the anterior divisions may represent a primitive head, to which three segments and their leg-like appendages were subsequently added to form the head as it now exists.

In these facts we have one possible clue to the change from exopterygotism to endopterygotism, namely, by an intermediate period of anapterygotism.

In the case of nonelectrolytes and of all non-ionized molecules this analogy completely represents the facts, and the phenomena of diffusion can be deduced from it alone.

And yet the book is an invaluable repertory of facts, and must endure until it is superseded by something better.

His history of the period from 146 to 88 B.C., in fifty-two books, must have been a valuable storehouse of facts.

Matthew of Vendome, abbot of St Denis, an old servant of Louis IX., acted as Philip's counsellor, so the chroniclers state, throughout the reign; but he is only a shadowy figure, and it is difficult to reconcile the statement that "everything was done according to his will" with the known facts.

This is shown by the facts that he addressed to Anastasius, emperor of the East (491-518), a laudatory poem, and that the MSS.

All understanding of facts consists in generalizing concerning them.

The charge of dishonesty is one never to be lightly made against men of such distinction as his, especially when their evident confidence in their own infallibility, their faculty of ingenious casuistry, and the strength of will which makes them (unconsciously, no doubt) close and keep closed the eyes of their mind to all inconvenient facts and inferences, supply a more charitable explanation.

As we noted earlier, people no longer disagree simply about what values to apply to a set of facts—rather, they disagree as to the nature of the facts themselves.

Again, this is because without compelling, widely accepted facts, we use things we've learned from other parts of our lives to make our decisions.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

It is due to Vieillot to mention these facts, as he has been accused of publishing his method in haste to anticipate some of Cuvier's views, but he might well complain of the delay in London.

Yet his followers, if not he himself, were ever making use of language in the highest degree metaphorical, and were always explaining facts in accordance with preconceived opinions.

The combination of these three facts will of itself explain some defects, or even retrogressions, observable in Nitzsch's later systematic work when compared with that which he had formerly done.

More than this, he entered upon their geographical distribution, the facts of which important subject are here, almost for the first time, since the attempt of Blyth already mentioned, 4 brought to bear practically on classification.

Several facts point to the conclusion that the primary use of this secretion was the formation of egg-cases or cocoons by the female, for this is the only constant use for which the silk is employed, without exception, by all species.

These facts indicate that we have here an agricultural product the market price of which is still far below its value as compared, on the basis of its chemical composition, either with other feeding stuffs or with other fertilizers.

His success depends upon his ability to interpret rightly the facts and intangible signs with which he is brought in contact.

But nothing has yet been proved from these facts as to the effect "futures" are having upon the steadiness of prices.

Recent statistics bearing upon cotton are collected annually in the two publications, Shepperson's Cotton Facts and Jones's Handbook for Daily Cable Records of Cotton Crop Statistics.

Ranke, contemptuous in politics, as in history, of the men who warped facts to support some abstract theory, especially disliked the doctrinaire liberalism so fashionable at the time.

He hoped, by presenting facts as they were, to win the adhesion of all parties.

Nothing is recorded of the facts of Aisin Gioro's reign except that he named the people over whom he reigned Manchu, or " Pure."

This is one of the many facts which differentiate the Crusades of the 13th from those of the preceding century.

He had an extraordinary memory, well stored with scientific knowledge, both modern and historical, a cool and impartial judgment, and a strong preference for facts as against theory of the speculative kind.

This work contains an astounding collection of facts invaluable to the scientific biographer and historian.