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precise as in: about noon; 12:03 to be precise
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Is it precise enough if I measure to the closest inch?
precise = accurate
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The detective is talking to all the witnesses to try to determine the precise sequence of events.precise = exact
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The company says it measures calories burned within 15% or the precise measurement that could be obtained in a laboratory.
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The new test measures hormone levels more precisely.precisely = accurately
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I've forgotten so many things, and yet I always know precisely how many days I've been in my domain. (source)precisely = exactly
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I apologize — I mean I should have been more precise. (source)precise = accurate
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Probably this whole segment of the woods has been armed with precision launchers that are concealed in trees or rocks. (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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The boy was startled by the preciseness of the date and he repeated it before he asked, "How did it come about?"† (source)preciseness = exactness or accuracystandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Liberalism—and I use that term imprecisely and in the abstract, meaning only what I thought at a particular time in reaction against my environment—gave me the opportunity to sharpen my rather charming, naïve political and social views.† (source)imprecisely = not exactly or accuratelystandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in imprecisely means not and reverses the meaning of precisely. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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For the hundredth time he resented the element of imprecision, the margin of guesswork that entered into the business.† (source)imprecision = the quality of lacking exactness or accuracystandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in imprecision means not and reverses the meaning of precision. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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No one ever said precisely what it was that she would not be able to manage. (source)precisely = exactly
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To be more precise, because of the behavior of the system in phase space. (source)precise = accurate
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His fingers were long and fine and they moved with great precision. (source)precision = accuracy
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"Half an hour ago," the stableman said imprecisely.† (source)imprecisely = not exactly or accurately
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precise as in: a precise personality
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She has the kind of precise personality that never has a cluttered desk or an out-of-fashion item in her closet.
precise = meticulous (careful about details)
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She is precise in her thinking, appearance, and movements.
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"I just want to be clear about a few details," he said, making notes in a precise hand. (source)precise = meticulous (very neat)
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If he had yelled, I would have known that the yelling was the worst he planned to do. But his voice is quiet and his words precise. (source)precise = carefully chosen
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His handwriting is neat, precise. (source)precise = meticulous (careful about details)
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But he was mapped and surveyed, each stone and hummock noted with clear-eyed precision. (source)precision = meticulousness (careful attention to detail)standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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Roy's fingers trembled as he undid the precisely tied clove-hitch knots. (source)precisely = carefully
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For the last ten minutes, with a heavenly disregard for the precisions of passing time, the church bells of Haarlem had been pealing out 7:00 and now half a block away in the town square, the great bell of St. Bavo's solemnly donged seven times.† (source)
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The meeting was very satisfactory on each side. Miss Crawford found a sister without preciseness or rusticity, a sister's husband who looked the gentleman, and a house commodious and well fitted up; and Mrs. Grant received in those whom she hoped to love better than ever a young man and woman of very prepossessing appearance. (source)preciseness = rigid concern for rules and mannersstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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"What you need to learn, children," she always said, in her resonant, precise voice, "is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life." (source)precise = meticulously proper
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I confess, our rigor and precision wearies me at times. (source)precision = meticulousness (careful attention to detail)
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"You have forgotten your place, nymph. I am a daughter of Zeus. Perhaps I cannot strike directly at your son, but the Fates say nothing about what I can do to you." She set the words in the room precisely as stones in a mosaic. (source)precisely = meticulously
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She was simply bringing to the Komsomol the same unwavering enthusiasm and precise attention to detail that she had brought to the mathematics of Professor Lisitsky. (source)precise = meticulous
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You'll be good at ironing. You like precision and clean lines. (source)precision = attention to detail
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