Sample Sentences for
precise
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(editor-reviewed)

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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    She put one foot ahead of the other with precise regularity, not allowing her pace to lag.  (source)
    precise = exact
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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)
    precision = accurate
    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)
    standard 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)
    standard 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)
    standard 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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    Perhaps there would never be a precise answer as to when and where it occurred.  (source)
    precise = exact
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    With a sort of military precision that astonished him, she outlined the route that he was to follow.  (source)
    precision = the quality of exactness or accuracy
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    "Half an hour ago," the stableman said imprecisely.†  (source)
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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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    "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)
    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 manners
    standard 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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    His handwriting is neat, precise.  (source)
    precise = meticulous (careful about details)
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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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    Enunciating precisely but soundlessly: "There's a white man at the door!"  (source)
    precisely = carefully and accurately
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    She was a quiet, precise woman who had been at Welch High School so long that she had also been Dad's English teacher.  (source)
    precise = meticulous (careful about details)
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    It attested to a precision of purpose and the promise of adventure.  (source)
    precision = careful implementation
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