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# accurately

«accurately» in Mova's school dictionary: **exactly correct, without mistakes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (accurately; more accurately)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a way that is exactly correct, without mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accurately/#m1)

2) Hitting or reaching exactly the right point. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accurately/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and science pupils must measure accurately, draw accurately with a ruler, and copy numbers accurately. In sport you throw or kick accurately. Phrases: measure accurately, more accurately, to put it accurately.

### examples

- Measure the line accurately with your ruler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accurately/#x1)
- She kicked the ball accurately into the corner of the goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accurately/#x2)
- Copy the numbers accurately or your answer will be wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accurately/#x3)
- The scales weigh the flour accurately to the gram. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accurately/#x4)
- He described the thief accurately to the police. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accurately/#x5)
- Read the scale accurately before you write the temperature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accurately/#x6)
- Round your answer accurately to one decimal place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accurately/#x7)

### note

From the adjective "accurate"; noun "accuracy". Spelling: two c, one r: accurately. "Accurately" is about being exact; "precisely" is close in meaning. In maths it means do not guess or estimate.

### In the corpora

- [In a study reported from Stanford, college basketball players who slept longer for several weeks shot free throws more accurately.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «accurately» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accurately/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.