All 4 Uses of
precise
in
Great Expectations
- I might have been too reserved, and should have patronized her more (though I did not use that precise word in my meditations) with my confidence.†
Chpt 17
- Our breakfast was as good as the supper, and at half-past eight precisely we started for Little Britain.†
Chpt 25 *
- Muttering that I would make the inquiry whether I had time to walk with him, I went into the office, and ascertained from the clerk with the nicest precision and much to the trying of his temper, the earliest moment at which the coach could be expected,—which I knew beforehand, quite as well as he.†
Chpt 32
- "Will soon come to London," said I, after casting about for a precise form of words, "or summon me anywhere else?"†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(precise as in: about noon; 12:03 to be precise) exact (accurate)editor's notes: In the fields of science, engineering, and statistics, precise and accurate are not properly used as synonyms the way they are in general usage.
If you throw darts at a dartboard and keep missing the bullseye, but hit in the same place on the dartboard each time, you would be described as precise, but not accurate.
If you seldom hit the bullseye, but tended to get close each time, you would be described as accurate, but not precise.
Finally, if you hit the bullseye each time, you would be considered both accurate and precise.