Tra từ precise - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

pre·cise AW BrE [prɪˈsaɪs] NAmE [prɪˈsaɪs] adjective
1. clear and accurate
Syn: ↑exact
•precise details/instructions/measurements
• Can you give a more precise definition of the word?
• I can be reasonably precise about the time of the incident.
2. only before noun used to emphasize that sth happens at a particular time or in a particular way
• We were just talking about her when, at that precise moment, she walked in.
• Doctors found it hard to establish the precise nature of her illness.
3. taking care to be exact and accurate, especially about small details
Syn: ↑meticulous
•a skilled and precise worker
•small, precise movements
• (disapproving) She's rather prim and precise.
Idiom: ↑be precise

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French prescis, from Latin praecis- ‘cut short’, from the verb praecidere, from prae ‘in advance’ + caedere ‘to cut’.

Thesaurus:
precise [precise] adj.
•She gave precise details of the incident.
exact • • specific • • accurate •
Opp: imprecise
precise/accurate/specific about sb/sth
precise/exact/accurate/specific instructions/details
precise/exact/accurate measurements
Precise, exact or accurate? A description that is not very precise/exact lacks details; if it is not very accurate it has details, but they are wrong.

Example Bank:
•Are the measurements precise enough?
•These estimates will become more precise.
•We've tried to make the process as precise as possible.
•You have to be precise about the numbers.
•You need to use legally precise terms.
•to be more precise in my analysis
•It measures 3.4 metres, to be precise.
•Please give precise details about your previous experience.
•She was reasonably precise about the time of the incident.
•We were just talking about her when, at that precise moment, she walked in.
•We will need a more precise description of the accommodation.