(n.) An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.
(n.) Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.
(n.) The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(2) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(3) In addition, despite the fact that the differences constitutes an information bias, the bias occurs in the same direction and magnitude in all the various subgroups and thus is nondifferential.
(4) In fact, the addition of conditioned medium obtained by 48 hr preincubation of isolated monocytes with 10% PF-382 supernatant (M-CM2) or the concomitant addition of supernatant from PF-382 cells (PF-382-CM) and from unstimulated monocytes (M-CM1) are capable of fully replacing the presence of monocytes in the BFU-E assay.
(5) In fact, you might read it as a signal … that the president might well lose on this,” she said.
(6) I forgave him because I know for a fact that he wasn't in his right mind," she said.
(7) The fact that IL-3, GM-CSF, and IL-5 regulate basophil function and viability in vitro demonstrates possible mechanisms for the regulation of basophil function and viability in IgE-mediated reactions (especially in late-phase reactions) in vivo by these factors.
(8) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
(9) In fact, the distribution of [3H]oleate between plasma membranes and unilamellar vesicles of lipids extracted from these membranes was in favor of the lipids, indicating the absence of a detectable amount of binding to a putative fatty acid binding protein in plasma membranes.
(10) The facts are that the vulnerable children of this country remain largely unprotected.
(11) That's, in fact, just what Reed Brody was thinking.
(12) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
(13) Results of detailed studies on tissue reactions to Cysticercus bovis in the heart of cattle, together with a comparison of findings in animals with spontaneous and experimental infection, and an evaluation of tissue reactions in relation to the location, morphology and morphogenesis of C. bovis provided evidence for the fact that in general, the response of the heart to the presence of C. bovis was an inflammatory reaction characterized by the origin of a pseudoepithelial border and a zone of granulation tissue.
(14) This fact suggested that TCTFP may be metabolized intensively by glutathione (GSH) conjugation and therefore, like hexachlorobutadiene, would be expected to be nephrotoxic.
(15) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
(16) These differences point to the fact that the mechanisms that regulate satellite cell mitotic and fusion behavior are also not the same in all muscles.
(17) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
(18) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
(19) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
(20) This, however will not result in normal lower leg bones, as can be concluded from the fact that spontaneous fractures have occurred partly even in the locomotor apparatus after the pseudarthroses had healed.
Factum
Definition:
(n.) A man's own act and deed
(n.) Anything stated and made certain.
(n.) The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity.
(n.) The product. See Facient, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) To measure the original tomb, Lowe's company, Factum Arte, used their own scanner, which can capture images as small as a tenth of a millimetre (and in the process created an unprecedented document that should be of sizeable assistance to future researchers).
(2) A Factum poll in October showed 29% approved of legalisation.
(3) Ex-post-factum study of growth and IQ achievements, in children previously affected by malnutrition.
(4) Adam Lowe, the founder of Factum Arte, said in a statement that the information gleaned from the slide and photographs enabled the group to study the surface of the painting, including brush marks.
(5) Sky said the replica was produced by a team of architects and computer engineers at Factum Arte who had precious little to go on: just a slide of the painting by photographer Enzo Brai, which did not even capture the entire painting, and some black and white photographs of the Caravaggio work from the 1950s that were recently discovered in the archives of the Restoration Institute in Rome.
(6) Factum Arte used laser scanners to capture the texture, shape and colours of the tomb, before reproducing it with machine-operated blades, some with a width of less than two-tenths of a millimetre.
(7) The initiative was introduced by the TV broadcaster Sky, which also commissioned a Madrid- and Milan-based company, Factum Arte , to create a replica of the piece.
(8) "The attempt to fix the tombs to make them visitable is itself now the largest long-term risk to the tombs," said Adam Lowe, whose Spanish-based firm Factum Arte led and funded the creation of the tomb's replica under the supervision of Egypt's supreme council of antiquities.
(9) The rationale for this new approach is based on the American experience but proposes an improved organizational and scientific method that has evolved to replace the previously existing ad hoc committees and punitive, post-factum approach.