Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - accurate

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Accurate information, measurements, and statistics are correct to a very detailed level. An accurate instrument is able to give you information of this kind. Police have stressed that this is the most accurate description of the killer to date... Quartz timepieces are very accurate, to a minute or two per year. = precise ? inaccurate ADJ • accurately The test can accurately predict what a bigger explosion would do. ADV 2. An accurate statement or account gives a true or fair judgment of something. Joseph Stalin gave an accurate assessment of the utility of nuclear weapons... They were accurate in their prediction that he would change her life drastically. ? inaccurate ADJ • accurately What many people mean by the word ‘power’ could be more accurately described as ‘control’. ADV: ADV with v 3. You can use accurate to describe the results of someone’s actions when they do or copy something correctly or exactly. Marks were given for accurate spelling and punctuation. ? inaccurate ADJ 4. An accurate weapon or throw reaches the exact point or target that it was intended to reach. You can also describe a person as accurate if they fire a weapon or throw something in this way. The rifle was extremely accurate... ? inaccurate ADJ • accurately ...the technology to aim bombs accurately from aircraft. = precisely ADV: ADV with v