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• fact — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ important, interesting, relevant, salient ▪ You must look at all the relevant facts. ▪ basic, simple ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• 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; …   Combinatory dictionary

• fact — Synonyms and related words: absolute fact, accepted fact, accomplishment, act, actual fact, actuality, actually, admitted fact, adventure, article, aspect, authenticity, axiom, bald fact, bare fact, basis for belief, body of evidence, brutal fact …   Moby Thesaurus

• fact — W1S1 [fækt] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(true information)¦ 2 the fact (that) 3 in (actual) fact 4 the fact (of the matter) is 5 the fact remains 6¦(real events/not a story)¦ 7 facts and figures 8 the facts speak for themselves 9 after the fact ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Known Space — is the fictional setting of several science fiction novels and short stories written by author Larry Niven. It has also in part been used as a shared universe in the Man Kzin Wars spin off anthologies sub series.The epithet Known Space is an in… …   Wikipedia

• fact — n [Latin factum deed, real happening, something done, from neuter of factus, past participle of facere to do, make] 1: something that has actual existence: a matter of objective reality 2: any of the circumstances of a case that exist or are… …   Law dictionary

• FACT (biology) — FACT (facilitates chromatin transcription) is a heterodimeric protein complex that affects eukaryotic RNA polymerase II (Pol II) transcription elongation both in vitro and in vivo. It was discovered in 1998 as a factor purified from human cells,… …   Wikipedia

• fact — (n.) 1530s, action, especially evil deed, from L. factum event, occurrence, lit. thing done, neuter pp. of facere to do (see FACTITIOUS (Cf. factitious)). Usual modern sense of thing known to be true appeared 1630s, from notion of something that… …   Etymology dictionary

• fact — factful, adj. /fakt/, n. 1. something that actually exists; reality; truth: Your fears have no basis in fact. 2. something known to exist or to have happened: Space travel is now a fact. 3. a truth known by actual experience or observation;… …   Universalium

• fact — [[t]fækt[/t]] n. 1) something that actually exists: Your fears have no basis in fact[/ex] 2) something known to exist or to have happened 3) a truth known by actual experience or observation; something known to be true 4) something said to be… …   From formal English to slang

• Fact — For other uses, see Fact (disambiguation). A fact (derived from the Latin Factum, see below) is something that has really occurred or is actually the case. The usual test for a statement of fact is verifiability, that is whether it can be shown… …   Wikipedia