precise

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pre·cise /prɪˈsaɪs/ W3 AWL adjectiveadj

1 EXACTprecise information, details etc are exact, clear, and correct 精确的，准确的 SYN exact

precise sales figures

准确的销售数据

It was difficult to get precise information.

很难得到确切的消息。

‘She’s a lot older than you, isn’t she?’ ‘Fifteen years, to be precise.’

“她比你大很多，是不是？”“准确地说，大了15岁。”

2 [only before noun]EXACT used to emphasize that you are referring to an exact thing 恰好的，确切的 SYN exact

At that precise moment, her husband walked in.

就在那一刻，她丈夫走了进来。

The precise cause of the disease is unknown.

造成这种疾病的确切原因尚不清楚。

the precise location of the ship

那艘船的确切位置

the precise nature of their agreement

他们协议的确切性质

3 CAREFULsomeone who is precise is very careful about small details or about the way they behave 〔人〕周密的，细心的，一丝不苟的

a precise careful woman

认真细心的女子

with precise movements of his hands

以他双手精准的动作

Examples from the Corpus

precise• The serious aerial photographer will be looking for adjustment through vertical and horizontal axes so that the field of view is precise.• But then patterns begin to freeze, making relationships more explicit and meanings more precise.• It's difficult to be precise about the number of deaths caused by smoking.• The fine steel blade is non-stick coated giving a precise anvil action.• The precise cause of this serious disease is still unknown.• Although I had precise engineering plans I nevertheless measured and remeasured the space.• In the 1920s and 1930s such distinctions in land and station use were given even more precise legislative sanctions.• Divers have been unable to find the precise location of the sunken ship.• We need to know your precise location.• There is no precise method of measuring intelligence.• At that precise moment, the telephone rang.• Each plane has to follow a precise route.• In 10 casts using this strict, precise, scientific process last week in Malibu, I caught 10 fish.• It is not possible to be much more precise than this without becoming hopelessly entangled in a series of impossible dilemmas.

to be precise• He was born in April - on the 4th to be precise.• He supplied me with money - fourpence a week to be precise.• In produce, to be precise.• Or the paddock, to be precise.• In the conceptual case, each example's properties are supposed to be precise and discrete.• I say four, but to be precise, channels two and three are in fact combined.• A dromedary, to be precise, the one-humped variety, also known as ships of the desert.

Origin precise

(1500-1600) French précis, from Latin praecisus, from praecidere “to cut off”

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