What's the difference between honed and precise?

Honed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Hone

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And it will continue to refine and hone the operation: recruiting more volunteers, collecting more data, refining the methods of communication, using social media more than traditional media.
  • (2) Interview with Donald Hutera In other words "Maliphant's choreography slips under our guard, arouses our curiosity and hones our gaze, without us realising the force of its aim."
  • (3) However, the wise surgeon will continue to hone his surgical skills because the results of definitive, sure, and deliberate operative treatment of biliary tract stone disease remains the standard by which newer methods must be gauged.
  • (4) Drilling and polluting is what Shell does, and its corporate culture – honed in blackspots such as Nigeria and the Alberta tar sands – is still based on the old 19th-century explore-exploit-risk-reward capitalist business model that owes nothing to anything beyond the company.
  • (5) His links with Bach have been the subject of much speculation among the German media, which has also honed in on Bach’s trade links to the middle east in his business life and his past as an executive for Adidas and Siemens.
  • (6) David Hone, climate change adviser for oil company Shell, said policy makers needed to focus on delivering a clear carbon price, rather than setting targets for renewable energy.
  • (7) The music and the image had been honed down in the interim – the gear to the archetypal indie look and the music to the almost bubblegum sound which they ply today.
  • (8) These tactics, of low-visibility, close-quarters combat were honed while fighting the Russians.
  • (9) V&A museum project boosted by billionaire's donation Read more The studious reproduction of museum exhibits has long been a fundamental part of art education – a means of honing drawing skills and offering deeper ways of looking.
  • (10) He offers a simple, well-honed defence to convince both himself and his interrogators of his innocence: "I made it to protect the motherland.
  • (11) In Venezuela, for example, mannequins’ shape have changed in response to the exaggerated ideals of beauty promoted in a country where a plastic surgery-honed physique is the ideal.
  • (12) The latest revelation about the involvement of blacklisting on the Olympic site is contained in a letter sent to Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) chief executive Dennis Hone from Balfour Beatty construction chief executive Mike Peasland.
  • (13) Inside, athletes honed to physical perfection by years of hard work and drugs.
  • (14) 7.55am GMT Roux is honing in on Johnson’s notes from the night of Reeva Steenkamp’s death.
  • (15) Alongside the many other scientists, academics and educators on the advisory panel for Atmosphere, David Hone, Shell’s climate change adviser, has been consulted with regards to gallery content,” the spokesperson said.
  • (16) The HNE-1 cell line has been passaged more than 100 times and the uncloned HONE-1 cells more than 90 times.
  • (17) He caught sight of Marine Le Pen on a TV politics show in 2007, inveighing against the European Union in the pugnacious style she honed as a lawyer, warning the government to “stop taking the people for fools”.
  • (18) The key axis in this team is perhaps the Messi-Gago funnel, a relationship honed over shared international adolescence.
  • (19) Hollande's image as France's Monsieur Normal may have been honed through his contact with the Corrèziens, but it has become one of the foundation stones of his entire election campaign.
  • (20) They attribute the movement's interest in this issue to a desire to "improve its image, hone its legal strategy, and make new friends" among advocates for the disabled.

Precise


Definition:

  • (a.) Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.
  • (a.) Strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (2) They more precisely delineate the hazard identification process and the factors important in supporting risk decisions for developmental toxicants than does any other document.
  • (3) The determination of basic levels of TSH is more sensitive and more precise.
  • (4) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
  • (5) It now seems clear that greater precision can be achieved through modification of the original technique.
  • (6) Validation studies, to show that the method is precise, accurate and rectilinear, have been carried out on four linctus formulations and two pastille formulations.
  • (7) Precise excision of the masses was thus accomplished and functional and aesthetic reconstruction aided by the conservation of normal anatomical structures.
  • (8) Compared to the SRK II-equation the results of the new programme are much more precise.
  • (9) However, while the precise nature of the city’s dietary problems is hard to pin down, the picture regarding physical activity is much clearer.
  • (10) Labelling of the albumin with 99mTc ensured an accuracy of measurements only limited by the precision of the weighing.
  • (11) This noninvasive but precise imaging modality demonstrates the potential value of using MRI to evaluate the diameter of small vessels, including the postoperative monitoring of arterial bypass graft patency in peripheral regions.
  • (12) These results strongly suggest that urinary GAGs determination is a precise method for ovulation detection.
  • (13) While the precise function of the MIRP is not known, the availability of this protein in pure and biologically relevant quantities will allow further studies to elucidate its pathobiologic function.
  • (14) This procedure yields excellent precision and accuracy, as demonstrated by the analysis of a known amino acid mixture and of neonatal plasma.
  • (15) This gene was previously shown to have a DNase I- and S1-sensitive site for which the boundaries varied with the cell cycle, and we have now precisely mapped these modifications.
  • (16) The Radio-PAGE and immunoblot typing methods both gave precise identification of Helicobacter pylori strains, but Radio-PAGE was found to give higher resolution and represents a standardised universally applicable fingerprinting method for Helicobacter pylori.
  • (17) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
  • (18) The great clinical value of the procedure is shown by the following findings:X-ray-negative lesions--including 2 cases of carcinoma--were found in 35 percent of the cases, radiologically demonstrated lesions could be defined more precisely in 18 percent, and the presence of colonic lesions could be ruled out in 11 percent in spite of equivocal X-ray findings.
  • (19) The precision of measurement using the cancellation technique was found to be high.
  • (20) The precision obtained with the different methods is similar.

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