Fact

·noun A doing, making, or preparing.

II. Fact ·noun Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.

III. Fact ·noun An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.

IV. Fact ·noun 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.