accurate
English
[edit]Etymology
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Borrowed from Latin accūrātus, perfect passive participle of accūrō (“to take care of”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + cūrō (“care for”). First attested in 1610. Compare English cure.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈak.jʊ.ɹɪt/, /ˈak.jə.ɹɪt/, /-ət/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/, /-ət/
Audio (Southern California): (file)
- (US, nonstandard) IPA(key): /ˈæk.ɹɪt/, /ˈæk.ə.ɹɪt/, /-ət/[1]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/
Adjective
[edit]accurate (comparative more accurate, superlative most accurate)
- Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty. [1650]
- an accurate calculator
- an accurate measure
- accurate knowledge
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page x:
- For more than 90% of the figures (mostly drawn during 1976-1990), either a scale, or the given magnification, will allow the user to derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.
- Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
- Synonym: unerring
- My horoscopes I read last week were surprisingly accurate.
- On course to hit, or successful in hitting, a target; well-aimed.
- Synonym: precise
- an accurate pass
- an accurate shot
- Capable of consistently hitting a target, especially using some weapon or tool.
- an accurate marksman
- an accurate shooter
- (obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. [1610]
- 1625, Bacon, Of the Vicissitude of Things:
- for that is the fume of those, that conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below, than indeed they have
Usage notes
[edit]- We speak of a thing as correct with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a correct account, a correct likeness, a man of correct deportment.
- We speak of a thing as accurate with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an accurate statement, an accurate detail of particulars.
- We speak of a thing as exact with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundancy; as, an exact coincidence, the exact truth, an exact likeness.
- We speak of a thing as precise when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if cut down thereto; as a precise conformity to instructions; precisely right; he was very precise in giving his directions.
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]exact or careful conformity to truth — see also precise, exact, just, correct, certain, faithful, thorough, true
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References
[edit]- ^ Hurd, Seth P. (1847), “Accuracy”, in “False Pronunciation”, in A Grammatical Corrector; or, A Vocabulary of the Common Errors of Speech[1], Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co, →OCLC, page 77.
Anagrams
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Adjective
[edit]accurate
- inflection of accuraat:
Interlingua
[edit]Adjective
[edit]accurate (comparative plus accurate, superlative le plus accurate)
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[edit]Italian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]accurate f pl
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From accūrātus (“elaborate, exact”).
Adverb
[edit]accūrātē (comparative accūrātius, superlative accūrātissimē)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “accurate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “accurate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “accurate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a carefully written book: liber accurate, diligenter scriptus
- a carefully written book: liber accurate, diligenter scriptus
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
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