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US
/pɹiˈsaɪsɫi, pɹɪˈsaɪsɫi/
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[ UK /pɹɪsˈaɪsli/ ]
[ UK /pɹɪsˈaɪsli/ ]
ADVERB
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indicating exactness or preciseness
he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do
it has just enough salt
it was just as he said--the jewel was gone
Properly speaking, all true work is religion. -
in a precise manner
she always expressed herself precisely -
just as it should be
`Precisely, my lord,' he said
How To Use precisely In A Sentence
- There was no crust of stalagmite overlying the mud in which the human skeleton was found, and no bones of other animals in the mud with the skeleton; but just before our visit in 1860 the tusk of a bear had been met with in some mud in a lateral embranchment of the cave, in a situation precisely similar to b, Figure 1, and on a level corresponding with that of the human skeleton. The Antiquity of Man
- But it is precisely the familiarity of the urban terrain to those who live there that enables them to use it to the advantages of ambushes, surprise attacks and rapid redeployment.
- “Part of an adult faith, for example, is a commitment to the inviolability of human life from its first moment, radically opposing the principle of violence, precisely in the defense of the most defenseless of human creatures,” the pope said. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
- So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one 5-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons? Finding the Next Winner
- This "indistinguishability" seems to me to be precisely the point that aiguy has been making in this thread (and doing an outstanding job of it, BTW). Aiguy's Computer
- When I wrote, imprecisely, that domestic subsidies for agricultural commodities are equivalent to protective tariffs, I was groping at the notion that in both cases (1) domestic consumers/taxpayers pay a premium above the world price and (2) that foreign producers are discouraged from entering the domestic market. The Case for Free Trade, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- This is precisely how astrological ideas cross-fertilise each other and grow.
- He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin. Ulysses
- The more precisely you measure the position of a particle, the less precisely you can measure its velocity, and viceversa.
- York is one of a small number of English cities of supreme importance precisely because of its heritage.