| Main Entry: | bottom line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indispensable content |
Synonyms: |
basis, conclusion, core, crux, determination, essence, fiber, final decision, fundamentals, income, key point, last word, loss, main idea, main point, main thing, meat and potatoes, name of the game, net, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, point, profit, reality, sum and substance, what it's all about, whole story |
| Main Entry: | data |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information in visible form |
Synonyms: |
abstracts, brass tacks, chapter and verse, circumstances, compilations, conclusions, details, documents, dope, dossier, evidence, experiments, facts, figures, goods, info, input, knowledge, materials, measurements, memorandums, notes, picture, proof, reports, results, scoop, score, statistics, testimony, whole story |
| Notes: | data (plural noun) is a collection of facts, observations, or measurements from which conclusions may be drawn while datum (singular noun) is an item of factual information derived from measurement or research |
| Main Entry: | facts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inside information |
Synonyms: |
bottom line, brass tacks, certainty, clue, cue, data, details, dope*, gospel, info, inside dope, like it is, lowdown, numbers, poop, reality, scoop*, score*, story, whole story |
Antonyms: |
lies |
| Main Entry: | information |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts, news |
Synonyms: |
advice, ammo, break*, chapter and verse, clue, confidence, counsel, cue, data, dirt*, dope*, dossier, earful, enlightenment, erudition, illumination, info, inside story, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, leak, learning, lore, lowdown, material, message, network, notice, notification, orientation, propaganda, report, science, scoop, score, tidings, tip, what's what, whole story, wisdom, word* |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| Main Entry: | notice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | announcement, information |
Synonyms: |
admonition, advertisement, advice, caution, caveat, circular, clue, comment, comments, communication, criticism, critique, cue, declaration, directive, enlightenment, goods*, handbill, info, instruction, intelligence, intimation, know*, lowdown, manifesto, memo, memorandum, news, note, notification, order, picture, poster, proclamation, remark, review, score, sign, squib, story, tip, warning, whole story, write-up |
| Main Entry: | particular |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | detail |
Synonyms: |
ABC's, article, bottom line, brass tacks, case, chapter and verse, circumstance, clue, cue, element, fact, facts of life, feature, gospel, item, know*, lowdown, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, picture, point, rundown, scoop*, score*, speciality, specific, specification, story, thing*, what's what, whole story |
Antonyms: |
generality |
| Main Entry: | truth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reality, validity |
Synonyms: |
accuracy, actuality, authenticity, axiom, case, certainty, correctness, dope*, exactitude, exactness, fact, facts, factualism, factuality, factualness, genuineness, gospel truth, gospel, honest truth, infallibility, inside track, legitimacy, maxim, naked truth, nitty-gritty, perfection, picture, plain talk, precision, principle, rectitude, rightness, scoop, score, trueness, truism, truthfulness, unvarnished truth, veracity, verisimilitude, verity, whole story |
Antonyms: |
falsehood, invention, untruth |
| Main Entry: | brass tacks |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the facts |
Synonyms: |
basic facts, basics, cases, essential facts, essentials, facts, nitty-gritty, realities, the dope, the scoop, the whole story, truth of the matter |
| Main Entry: | what's what |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the way things are |
Synonyms: |
fact, truth of the matter, where it's at, whole story |
| Main Entry: | particular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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Adjectives: |
particular, censorious, dainty, delicate, difficult to please, fastidious, finical, hard to please, hypercritical, jimp, lickerish, nice, pleasing, queasy, querulous, scrupulous, squeamish, strait-laced, thin-skinned
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