carefullycare‧ful‧ly /ˈkeəfəli $ ˈker-/ ●●● S2 W2 adverb 
He folded the sheets up carefully.look/listen/think etc carefully You need to think very carefully about which course you want to do.carefully planned/chosen/controlled etc carefully chosen words
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The book must be handled carefully because of its age.
- At night he carefully closed the corral and went home.
- Giving it a brisk stir, she carried it carefully upstairs.
- He turned his head to look at her, moving carefully to avoid waking her.
- In honest, carefully done scientific work, there is no compromise on stringent requirements for the conduct and interpretation of research.
- Nevertheless a carefully designed receptionist role that would take these misgivings into account, may be worth discussing.
- Slowly and carefully I swam round the dark walls of the castle.
- When the wild roses finished blooming, we collected the orange-red hips, carefully picked the skin off the compressed seeds.
Longman Language Activatorto examine something
to look at something carefully and thoroughly because you want to find out more about it: · Experts who examined the painting believe it is genuine.· Her new book examines the causes of social discontent.· A team of divers was sent down to examine the wreckage.examine something for something (=in order to find something): · The police will examine the weapon for fingerprints.
to look carefully at something in order to see small details: · If you look carefully, you can see the artist's name in the corner of the picture.look carefully/closely at: · I had to look closely at the two fish to tell them apart.
especially spoken to look carefully at something in order to find out what is wrong with it or to find out something about it: · "You'd better take a look at this," she said, passing me a letter.· I've asked Ken to have a look at the car - it's been making strange noises.take/have a good look at something (=look very carefully and thoroughly): · Take a good look at the photograph and see if you recognize anyone
also analyse British to examine something closely and in detail, especially a problem or a piece of information, in order to understand it: · Scientists use computers to help analyse the data.· One of the problems in analyzing the situation is that we do not have all the information yet.
to spend a lot of time examining something very carefully, for example a document, a plan, or a problem: · I won't comment till I've had time to study the proposals.· A team of scientists has been studying the effects of acid rain over a twenty-year period.
to look at something carefully and thoroughly to make sure that it is correct, safe, or working properly: · Their passports were checked by immigration officers at the airport.check something for something (=in order to find something): · We need to check the building for structural damage.
to quickly examine every part of something to make sure that it is correct or safe: check over something: · The editor always checks over what I've written.check something over: · I'm going to take the car in and ask the mechanic to check it over before we go on vacation.
to look at something carefully and thoroughly to make sure that it is correct, safe, or working properly, especially when it is your job to do this: · The building is regularly inspected by a fire-safety officer.· Russian and American teams will have the right to inspect each other's missile sites.· Some insurance people have already been here to inspect the damage caused by the storm.inspect something for something (=in order to find something): · All trucks coming through are inspected for mechanical violations.
to examine something such as a document or plan thoroughly from beginning to end, especially in order to check that it is correct: · I'd like to go over last month's accounts with you.· You should still go through the contract with a lawyer before you sign.
to look at every part of something in order to see if it is satisfactory, but fairly quickly and without paying much attention to detail: look over something: · I've looked over all the records and they seem okay.look something over: · The book is expensive, so look it over to make sure it's what you really want.
also scrutinise British to examine something very closely and carefully in order to find out whether there is anything wrong, especially because it is your official duty to do this: · The coach's assistants stood along the field and scrutinized every move we made.· The Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing the proposed merger of the two companies.
words for describing something that has been planned · Some people prefer a vacation with a lot of planned activities.· The number of planned job cuts by major US businesses declined in October from a year ago.
planned to happen at a particular time: · Heavy snow closed airports and forced the cancellation of scheduled budget talks at the White House.scheduled to do something: · A UN mission was scheduled to leave on February 29.scheduled for: · The play was originally scheduled for October, but it had to be cancelled.
done as part of a plan, especially in a military, business, or political situation, in order to gain an advantage against your opponents: · The British army made a strategic withdrawal across the English Channel.· The two countries agreed to join together in a strategic alliance.
something that is well thought out has been carefully planned so that it will work well and achieve its desired results: · If you're planning to take a year out between school and university, it needs to be carefully thought out.· The average worker's long-term financial security will depend upon having a well-thought-out personal finance plan.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY You need to think very carefully about which course you want to do. carefully chosen wordsCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES We will have to consider your offer carefully. The whole class was listening attentively. Liz stood still and listened hard (=very carefully). The temperature is carefully monitored. a carefully orchestrated promotional campaign If you like him, play it cool, or you might scare him off. The candidates’ public appearances were carefully staged (=not natural).
You need to think very carefully about which course you want to do. carefully chosen words We will have to consider your offer carefully. The whole class was listening attentively. Liz stood still and listened hard (=very carefully). The temperature is carefully monitored. a carefully orchestrated promotional campaign If you like him, play it cool, or you might scare him off.· We searched the whole house carefully, but didn’t find anything.
The candidates’ public appearances were carefully staged (=not natural).· Think carefully about every spending decision you make.
· She watched very carefully and did exactly as he did.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Unexpected demands on your money can cause havoc with even the most carefully planned budgets - at least for a short while.· This was to be the first of three stages in a carefully planned development of the imperial role and power.· Dumb bells, hours of exercising and a carefully planned diet of vegetarian food and fruit juice had completed the programme.· Care on discharge A carefully planned programme of subsequent care should be arranged before a patient is discharged from psychiatric inpatient treatment.· It was the result of a carefully planned experiment based on numerous other experiments performed over a long period.· This was achieved through a carefully planned programme of voluntary redundancies and with no manufacturing disruption or imbalance to the skill mix.· Especially if more of the carefully planned meals end up on the wall than in the mouth.
VERB· Marjorie carefully avoided looking at them.· Clinton, while giving his blessing to the discussions, has carefully avoided endorsing any legislation.· During most of Alexander's reign, the regime had carefully avoided all but minor military entanglements.· They had carefully avoided eye-contact since the old man had entered.· Agnes carefully avoided the girl's eye as she was shown straight through to Magill's office.· They had carefully avoided any election pledge to dismantle the structure of New Deal and Fair Deal programmes.· The Captain wiped the paint off his hands and carefully avoided showing his amusement.· She put it back again without a word, carefully avoiding Susan's eyes.
· The Claim Form should be carefully checked for information that would indicate that any commercial use is taking place.· This should be carefully checked on all occasions.· Shops are being advised to carefully check all coins handed over.· Adjusters reports should be carefully checked and any omissions or queries referred back to the Adjuster.· She carefully checked to see that the weapon was cocked.· As with index-linked rents, any mathematical formula should be carefully checked by calculator or computer.· It is, of course, necessary to check carefully and individually the size of type that a visually impaired pupil can discriminate.· Lady Thatcher's post was still heavy, despite her exile, and every packet and parcel was carefully checked.
· Designer blasts from the past carefully chosen to look nice in a west London living room.· I realize that what I do must be very carefully chosen.· It is even possible to dissolve certain types of crystal if the foods used are special diets, carefully chosen by vets.· The best suggestion when searching for a coworker-editor: choose carefully.· He could afford to take it easy and he picked and chose carefully whatever he wanted to do.· Augmenting the club-like atmosphere are the carefully chosen dark wood paneling, beveled stained glass and forest-green carpets.· When horses are put together in paddocks, they need to be carefully chosen for their mutual compatibility.· The cue maker then carefully chooses and seasons the wood, before tapering and sanding it down on a lathe.
· The timing of an approach must be considered carefully.· Now carefully consider the numerous modifications which stein from the addition of government.· Professor Glennerster considered carefully the argument that expensive treatments might be refused by fund holders and found no evidence of that yet.· This latter impression was then reinforced by his manner, which was quiet, polite, and very carefully considered.· I carefully considered the information before me before deciding to issue the notice.· Deborah carefully considered the types of punishments to use.· Consider carefully which invitations to accept.· They are real and should be carefully considered.
· It was carefully controlled by time and by geography - a day divided into three eight-hour slots.· As an alternative to episiotomy, the delivery of the head can be carefully controlled.· The patient's respiratory function is carefully controlled and monitored by the anaesthetist throughout the patient's stay in theatre.· He has a new media coach and his public appearances have been carefully controlled.· There was no secrecy about its contents, although it is delivered in limited and carefully controlled amounts.
· The town has been carefully designed to offer its visitors every amenity.· He also explained that to be successful it would have to be carefully designed and properly constructed.· The exact shape of the engine bell has to be very carefully designed.· He came back with a carefully designed regimen for him-self and monthly appointments to return for check-ins.· It has been carefully designed to develop and protect wildlife and plants while attracting many thousands of visitors.· These harems could hardly have been more carefully designed as breeding machines, dedicated to the spread of emperors genes.· In short, the whole project was carefully designed to produce a comprehensive visual cross-section of society in motion.
· I carefully examined every photograph in minute detail through a magnifying glass so as not to miss a thing.· The stigmata on this foot was carefully examined during its official recognition in 1597.· You must reach behind the form or wording of the question, dismantle it and carefully examine each part. 1.· In therapy he began to examine carefully the reasons for his previous passivity.· A number of questions - not all of them obvious - need to be examined carefully, and from all possible angles.· The feed is examined carefully, and at the slaughterhouse any bird with an appearance of disease is discarded.· But it does point to the need to examine carefully the social processes registered by apparently simple concepts.· The joints should be carefully examined for effusion, limitation of motion, or deformities.
· He listens carefully to what the other person has to say about it.· Wednesday she listened carefully as Attorney General Janet Reno testified in a subcommittee hearing on youth, violence and drugs.· At the start, everyone was respectful towards him, listening carefully to his soporific explanations.· Alan listens carefully as Jody explains her situation.· He may care now to listen carefully.· There is an additional objective to listening carefully: it helps you discover which words and meanings have become assets.· Secondly, if you listen carefully you are more likely to make the right responses to what is being said to you.· She was standing slightly curled, listening carefully to some one.
· Martha came forward to help, and Miss Mary looked carefully at Colin's thin white back, up and down.· Like Nancy Drew, I track down clues, try to figure things out, look carefully at evidence, examine motives.· Huy looked carefully at the girl's back, and found what he was seeking.· He waved them into the room, looking carefully at Lee.· Look carefully for single wires leading off the main lines and running across the fields to individual cottages.· Mr. Speaker: I shall look carefully at the speech of the Secretary of State.· He does appear to have looked carefully at various places, and in 1800 he settled in Ambleside.· Look carefully at the casuals and see their threads beginning to unravel.
· The male now carefully monitors the temperature of the mound by prodding his beak into it.· They chat about relationships and activities, while Levine carefully monitors Pieters for any sign of a viral offensive.· Variations in joint commissioning practice between social services and health services will have to be piloted and monitored carefully.· Patients' diets were carefully monitored also, to ensure that they had a low-calcium diet.· Dosage and timing need to be carefully monitored.· Regular reviews of progress will take place and students are asked to carefully monitor their own performance.· All gauges are carefully monitored with regular readings taken to establish the performance of the engine at different settings and temperatures.· Once a suitable agent has been found, progress should be carefully monitored.
· They had been procured in the early years of the century through a carefully orchestrated city campaign.
· Theirs are carefully placed slots made by cloven hooves, the ancient tread of wood-demons, Pan marks.· The cof-fee table was carefully placed, carefully cleaned, the magazines ar-rayed just so.· All the banqueting tables had been placed carefully, with full consideration to the dangers that abound on Samain.· He carefully places the sliver into a miniature vise.· An overnight case had been placed carefully on a sheet of newspaper.· In New Zealand, jewelry is placed carefully in a casket.· Once you are satisfied that the glass is spotless, carefully place it over the top of the design.
· The whole life span of a record, including its creation needs to be planned carefully.· There simply is no replacement for a rigorous, carefully planned sequence of academic course work.· He planned carefully so that there was always time and no panic.· As we saw in Chapter 7, a growing firm must plan carefully to finance its growth.· The work should be planned carefully, however, to ensure that the pupils are getting something out of it as well.· He carefully planned his exit from corporate life.· All reports should be carefully planned, so you should first examine source material.· However, the second sowing must be carefully planned.
· He read carefully, starting with the last issue where the facts would be most accurate, and working back.· If this product is purchased, the label should be carefully read for content.· This is one page you have to read, and read carefully.· But when surgery is planned, patients have the luxury of carefully reading the information.· Gregory's account needs to be read carefully.· He must read carefully, compare one passage with another and use all the aids he can.
· Those to whom the questionnaire is sent have already been carefully selected as representative of the population to be studied.· But there he was, already hunkered down, six carefully selected marbles from the others' collection, at his side.· Material should also be selected carefully as the quality of the resource is more important than the quantity.· It essentially involved asking individual children carefully selected questions and noting their responses and their reasoning for those responses.· All the instructors are carefully selected by myself and they offer a very special service.· This was Mark Rhoads, a first lieutenant in the Signal Corps who had been carefully selected for the assignment.· Much of the time pupils will work on sources that have been carefully selected by the teacher.· The date is carefully selected in consultation with merchant and consumer associations, he said.
· All the firms have detailed client agreement forms that need to be studied carefully.· Magazine rankings of business schools are considered extremely influential; many prospective business students carefully study them in deciding where to apply.· Before production is begun, of multi-kilogram or even multi-tonne lots, each reaction step is carefully studied in the pilot plant.· The result was interesting and certainly one which I shall study carefully.· Though I had carefully studied the fifth chapter of the Ethics, I still did not know how to control my emotions.· The instructions had to be carefully studied, the little staircase sandpapered down and fitted into place.· He either carefully studied these himself or arranged for research to be done on them by the most highly qualified specialists.
· Think carefully about your attitude towards the union and its representatives.· This requires that we think carefully about the ways we organize schools and the daily experiences children have within them.· The single man on average wages will think carefully before welcoming such an impost.· Think carefully if you plan on becoming pregnant.· If you are to attend the monthly progress review meeting, think carefully about the end-result you wish to achieve by attending.· If contracts aren't exchanged, think carefully before you take a bridging loan.· A carefully thought out project translates easily into specific amounts.
· So she had to tread carefully.· It is important, however, to tread carefully around the concept of core groups.· They trod carefully away, shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip.· Sadat now feels less restricted about what she can say, although she treads carefully around politics in her homeland.· Evidence of the erosion is clear along the route and walkers should tread carefully.· The press learned to tread carefully on the subject of their leaders' health during the Soviet era.· Supervisors and personnel officers will be instructed to tread carefully when dealing with workers.· It behooves companies to tread carefully in this area because even seemingly innocuous questions can get them into trouble.
· As this is the stage at which material is actively removed, the sections should be watched carefully during this process.· His or her behavior is carefully watched and not infrequently copied.· She watched carefully as Travis lingered over his own cup.· We carefully watched the flame of the hour candle eating away the wax from ring to ring.· They relate the story in a hushed tone, watching carefully for a reaction.· The companies are watching carefully lest other lobbyists try to slip the tougher provisions back in.· Wishart had Corbett watched carefully but all the reports indicated that Corbett had not been officially despatched by Edward.· Two things must be carefully watched.
· The agreement was carefully worded to give some satisfaction to both parties.· In a carefully worded address, Wyman argued the paradoxical facts.· In the prisoners' case, letters to the authorities should be worded carefully and courteously.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- From everything I saw and heard, he seemed to be very well organized in Iowa.
- In parliament there would be a carefully organized campaign of resistance that would at least slow the government down and raise Unionist morale.
- Now that the partisans were well organized in the Province of Parma they committed many acts of sabotage.
- Others around us, and we ourselves, demand that we always be well organized and hopeful.
- Professionals are well organized, never seen by their victims, and they don't kill.
- The anti-London lobby, however, was well organized and had financial arguments to back its case.
- They can also be extraordinarily well organized and methodical, as well as deliberate and purposeful.
- But new-wave sanitation experts say sewerage offers little more than convenience when compared to well thought-out latrines.
- Each section is well thought-out and presented with a good number of diagrams and chromatograms.
- It is here that the value of well thought-out objectives can be seen.
- The system is a well thought-out one and seems to work well.
- Evidence of the erosion is clear along the route and walkers should tread carefully.
- It behooves companies to tread carefully in this area because even seemingly innocuous questions can get them into trouble.
- It is important, however, to tread carefully around the concept of core groups.
- Sadat now feels less restricted about what she can say, although she treads carefully around politics in her homeland.
- So she had to tread carefully.
- Supervisors and personnel officers will be instructed to tread carefully when dealing with workers.
- The press learned to tread carefully on the subject of their leaders' health during the Soviet era.
- They trod carefully away, shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip.
- A strongly worded White House statement on March 7 had appealed for international support in stopping the operation of the Rabta plant.
- His criticisms have become so predictable and strongly worded that they are counter-productive.
- In a carefully worded address, Wyman argued the paradoxical facts.
- In a strongly worded letter this week to several dozen television stations, Rep.
- On the eve of the talks, the two sides had exchanged strongly worded statements on the issue.
- Once again, the agency sent a strongly worded warning letter, but took no punitive action.
- Pete Wilson yesterday, drawing a strongly worded veto but defining the battle lines after months of debate and anguished decisions.
- The agreement was carefully worded to give some satisfaction to both parties.
WORD FAMILYnouncarecareradjectivecareful ≠ carelesscaring ≠ uncaringverbcareadverbcarefully ≠ carelessly
in a careful way OPP carelessly: He folded the sheets up carefully.look/listen/think etc carefully You need to think very carefully about which course you want to do.carefully planned/chosen/controlled etc carefully chosen words- postmenopausal
- postmistress
- postmodern
- postmodernism
- postmodernist
- post-mortem
- postnatal
- Post Office
- post office
- post office box
- Post Office Tower
- post-operative
- postpaid
- postpartum
- postpone
- postponement
- postprandial
- postscript
- postseason
- postsecondary
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- postulate
- postulation
- postural
- posture