单词 | precise |
释义 | pre·cise (prĭ-sīs) adj. 1. Clearly expressed or delineated; definite: The victim gave a precise description of the suspect. 2. Exact, as in performance, execution, or amount; accurate or correct: a precise measurement; a precise instrument. 3. Strictly distinguished from others; very: at that precise moment. 4. Distinct and correct in sound or meaning: precise pronunciation; precise prose. 5. Conforming strictly to rule or proper form: "The setting up of this Maypole was a lamentable spectacle to the precise separatists that lived at New Plymouth" (Thomas Morton). [Middle English, exact, from Old French precis, condensed, precisely fixed, from Latin praecīsus, past participle of praecīdere, to shorten : prae-, pre- + caedere, to cut; see kaə-id- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] pre·ciseness n. |
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