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True-to-life

Definition: True-to-life

True-to-life

Adjective

1. Representing things or actions or conditions as they actually are; "the novel about ghetto life was true to life"; "true-to-life duck decoys".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: True-to-life

Synonyms: true to life(p) (adj), true-to-life(a) (adj). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: true mean life (electrical engineering, meteorology & standards).

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Commercial Usage: True-to-life

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Books

  • The demon gods of Thorny River : a true-to-life story of a Chinese family in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: True-to-life

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"Baleana mysticetus, or Common Whale." Scoresby's work helped demythologize the whale with his true-to-life images. This was the Northern Right Whale. . In: "An account of the Arctic regions with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery", by W. Scoresby. 1820. P. 588, Vol. II. Plate XII. Library Call Number G742 .S42 1820 . Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Modern Translation: True-to-life

Language Translations for "true-to-life"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

真实对"活. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

여실하 에 일생. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ue-to-lifetray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: True-to-life

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-l-o-r-t-t-u"

-2 letters: fluorite, fruitlet, reoutfit, roulette.

-3 letters: fertile, flitter, floruit, flouter, flutier, flutter, fouette, loftier, outfeel, outfelt, outfire, outlier, retitle, tortile, trefoil, triolet, tuftier.

-4 letters: etoile, ferlie, ferule, fetter, fettle, filter, fitter, floret, fluter, fouler, fueler, futile, ireful, lefter, letter, liefer, lifter, litter, lofter, loiter, outfit, outlet, outlie, refelt, refile, reflet, refuel, refute, relief, retile.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-l-o-r-t-t-u"
 

+3 letters: tetrafluoride.

 

+4 letters: fortunetelling, tetrafluorides.

 

+5 letters: fortunetellings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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