true nature

collocation in English

meaningsoftrueandnature

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true
adjective
uk
/truː/us
/truː/
(especially of facts or statements) right and not ...
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nature
noun
uk
/ˈneɪ.tʃər/us
/ˈneɪ.tʃɚ/
all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, ...
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(Definition oftrueandnaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftrue nature

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However, we are still unsure about itstruenature.
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Now ignorance of thetruenatureof happiness is pretty clearly a defect in the agent.
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Thetruenatureof computational complexity may be learnt from the quantum complexity theory.
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However, despite this theoretical progress, thetruenatureof the observed confined states remains a puzzle.
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Thetruenatureof their underlying disease was realized only after postmortem examination.
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Afterwards, the two friends discuss thetruenatureof music and musical instruments at length.
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The present paper confirms thetruenatureof this basophilic cellular invasion.
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This phenomenon needs to be examined further in order to determine itstruenature.
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Thetruenatureof the subjectification process has not been established.
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We could live with the view that experience misleads us as to thetruenatureof color.
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That is to say, the generality of a model depends on thetruenatureof the target(s).
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By studying the characteristics of the resulting interactions, important clues emerge as to thetruenatureof this engagement.
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But we must be clear about whose problem it is, and what thetruenatureof the problem is.
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Thetruenatureof his underlying disease was revealed only after the examination of the heart at autopsy.
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At this ironic but forceful flood of eulogies, we need no power of imagination to understand histruenature.
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By subsequently introducing the explicit phase lag of earlier models, thetruenatureand implications of this lag are revealed.
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The consciousness is precisely the consciousness of a humanity that has fallen short of itstruenature.
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However, thetruenatureof his distress was only gradually exposed through hypnosis (which he entered very easily).
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It was thought of as stimulating, thus encouraging its residents to be investigative of theirtruenature.
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Loving woman is thus an act of egoism and cruelty which, in idealising her, fails to recognise hertruenature.
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Discovering thetruenatureof an event in her own past may well be accompanied by a rush of emotion.
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That shows theirtruenature.
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That is thetruenatureof inflation.
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