(a.) Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone.
(a.) Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections.
(a.) Particular; fastidious; overnice.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
(2) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(3) It didn’t come off, and Leicester emerge with the most precious of wins.
(4) He says there are many optimistic tales to tell – migrant families, he says, are helping to drive up standards in local schools – but such stories tend to get lost in an online world that has precious little interest in them.
(5) The bond strength of the specimens brazed with the non-precious alloy was largely unaffected.
(6) "When Lee was born the family adored him, he was a precious gift given to us."
(7) The song also features Tatum's Magic Mike co-star Olivia Munn and Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe – plus a cameo role for Miley Cyrus who gets trapped under a vending machine.
(8) Sharply escalating the sanctions regime against Tehran, the EU also froze the Iranian central bank's assets in Europe and banned gold, precious metals and diamond transactions.
(9) Earlier, he said in a newspaper editorial that last month's natural disasters and the nuclear crisis presented Japan with "a precious window of opportunity to secure the 'rebirth of Japan' ".
(10) Today, we have come to a broader and more nuanced understanding of this age-old imperative: how to better balance the development needs of a growing world population – so all may enjoy the fruits of prosperity and robust economic growth – with the necessity of conserving our planet's most precious resources: land, air and water.
(11) Hunt questioned what real actions arose out of the report and said that it contained far too many consultations with precious little action.
(12) Four pilots with "extensive experience" in transporting some of the world's most precious cargo, including white rhinos and penguins, were on the flight.
(13) The list of organisations to which he was prepared to give precious time was impressive, and included the Booker Prize management committee, the British Association for American Studies, the SDP arts policy committee, the Eastern Arts Association, the King's Lynn literary festival and the Norwich festival.
(14) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
(15) He tried it in November 2014 in Belgium and, although Wales got a precious point and drew 0-0, Bale spent too long waiting for the ball that never came.
(16) Elaboration however is subject to operator interpretation and often eliminates precious information from the areas of interest.
(17) Martin Precious, 60, was a hairdresser at a high-end London salon with celebrity clients until severe depression forced him to give up his job.
(18) Besides that, instead of wire made, elements for support and stabilization cast of semiprecious and non-precious alloys also give much better results.
(19) He had been trapped in his cabin by a second explosion as he went to retrieve his precious cameras.
(20) St Pancras himself, of whom precious little is known, is buried in Rome, a long way from the charred and soiled remains of the 19th-century slums of Agar Town that were demolished to make way for the Midland Railway's steamy entrance into London.
Unique
Definition:
(a.) Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole.
(n.) A thing without a like; something unequaled or unparalleled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(2) Chromatographic maps of DNA adducts demonstrated unique patterns of DNA adducts for each of the regions.
(3) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
(4) The temporary loss of a family member through deployment brings unique stresses to a family in three different stages: predeployment, survival, and reunion.
(5) This is a report concerning a unique combination of Alzheimer's disease with the following refluxes: buccosalivary, gastroesophageal, vesicoureteral, urethroprostatic and urethrovesicular, along with neurogenic bowel and neuropathic bladder.
(6) A constellation of histologic lesions was identified in brain (diffuse meningoencephalitis with bilaterally symmetrical thalamic necrosis), liver (pericholangiohepatitis), lung (pneumonitis), and spleen (lymphoid hyperplasia); this tetrad is apparently unique to this model system.
(7) Monoclonal antibodies to human thyroglobulin may offer a unique opportunity to confirm the tissue origin of cutaneous metastasis.
(8) The presence of a previously unreported dipeptide transport mechanism within blood leukocytes and the selective enrichment of the granule enzyme, DPPI, within cytotoxic effector cells of lymphoid or myeloid lineage appear to afford a unique mechanism for the targeting of immunotherapeutic reagents composed of simple dipeptide esters or amides.
(9) The problem-based system provides a unique integration of acquiring theoretical knowledge in the basic sciences through clinical problem solving which was highly rated in all analysed phases.
(10) Radio-immunoprecipitation and partial proteolytic digest mapping showed that the monoclonal antibodies each recognized a unique epitope.
(11) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
(12) Silicon, a relatively unknown trace element in nutritional research, has been uniquely localized in active calcification sites in young bone.
(13) These neurons can be identified uniquely by 3H-thymidine exposure during the week preceding the neurogenesis of cortical layer 6.
(14) But it is a huge logistical problem – unique in the world.
(15) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
(16) Although GD1a was also found in the lung, heart, kidney, and spleen, its expression within the murine immune cells under investigation was unique to TH2 lymphocytes.
(17) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
(18) The unique case of an elderly man presenting with right L2-3 radiculopathy is described.
(19) Because each linkage project is different, the modular nature of the software allows for better control of the programming process and development of unique strategies.
(20) The testing of this program with HSIRPR cDNA release (EMBL data bank) indicated the presence of unique features in the signal peptide coding region.