adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
correspond closely/exactly/precisely to sth
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The description of these events corresponds closely to other accounts written at the time.
exactly/precisely the opposite (= completely different than what has been said )
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It looks simple, but it is exactly the opposite.
know exactly/precisely
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I know exactly how you feel.
precisely/exactly the kind
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This was precisely the kind of help that she needed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
correspond
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The data corresponds precisely to the situation described by Ashton etal's recruitment strategies with non-educational criteria taking priority over educational ones.
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Neither type corresponds precisely to that seen in vertebrate enamel, and the extreme variation in crystal orientation is puzzling.
define
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The parties will need to negotiate the period of the retention and define precisely the circumstances in which the retention is released.
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Note that the so-called critical exposures here are less easy to define precisely and will not be used.
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While assignments are difficult to define precisely , they are more structured and less open-ended than projects.
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Rarely will they define precisely what it is they wish to find out about dinosaurs or railways, etc.
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A further difficulty relates to defining precisely what does and does not constitute economic activity.
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It is hard to define precisely what constitutes quality of life.
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Their nature and duration must be defined precisely .
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The requested numbers of psychogeriatric beds may be defined precisely .
determine
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Whether or not motion occurs is most precisely determined experimentally by its effect on the heat transfer.
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More research will have to be completed before we can determine precisely what excites female widow-birds.
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You can precisely determine the orthodoxy of scientists' opinions by getting them to place themselves on that continuum.
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They compared these numbers to precisely determine muon's magnetic moment.
know
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Year by year we should be concerned to know precisely the rate of growth or decline.
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We had better know precisely what might happen.
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He knows precisely where he is going now and is fit and eager for the challenge.
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He knew precisely what she meant.
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He used this place rarely, but he knew precisely what he was looking for.
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Nobody except Chairman Daley knows precisely how many jobs the Machine controls.
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No one can know precisely how many consultations are involved in treating a specific individual.
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Publishing a paper in a small town, where readers know precisely what they want, is a big headache for Harold.
measure
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This is undoubted, but unfortunately for historians these changes can not be measured precisely .
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In other words, I can precisely measure this surface by looking down at it using laser scanners and such.
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For such workers, the wage differential precisely measures their willingness to pay for safety.
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The machine allows him to observe and measure precisely the biomechanics of the human body.
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Though temperature is an emergent property, it can be measured precisely , confidently, and predictably.
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And unlike white-collar work weeks, manufacturing hours are precisely measured by the government.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Can you tell us more precisely what happened?
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That is precisely the point I was trying to make earlier.
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The new legislation won't solve the problem - it will do precisely the opposite.
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We arrived at the hotel at precisely 10:30.
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We need to know precisely how much this is going to cost.
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What precisely do you mean by 'relativity'?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fife Symington has been in office precisely 18 days.
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Further down the scale the monarchic principle constitutes an obstacle to precisely that sense of responsibility about which we hear so much.
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That world evolves in a clear and deterministic way, being governed by precisely formulated mathematical equations.
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The cloud cover as well as the atmospheric conditions are precisely defined.
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The different categories of traveller are very hard to assess at all precisely .
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They are, of course, precisely right.
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What precisely , then, do we mean by church union?