What's the difference between precise and previse?
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.
Previse
Definition:
(v. t.) To foresee.
(v. t.) To inform beforehand; to warn.
Example Sentences:
(1) The standard metabolism of Aotus trivirgatus (Night monkey, Owl monkey) is 22.5 to 46.2 per cent below Kleiber's prevision curve for mammals, which applies to other cebid monkeys like Saimiri sciureus and Alouatta.
(2) The level of specific herd immunity towards epidemic strains is an important factor of prevision.
(3) The other 32 patients were not submitted to renal biopsy; in sediment and band test, may be of value in the prevision of patients with higher probability of developing more serious renal lesions.
(4) Furthermore, it is obvious that it is necessary to use a "multivariable" method for a better prevision of the cutaneous changes after facial osteotomies, specially for the lips.
(5) The behaviour pattern which arises from this reaction depends on the species, but varies according to the possibilities of prevision and control of the aggression.
(6) 3) The PBA is easy to handle on a large scale, using multiple peptide and several MHC molecules, so that it can be used as a routine method for prevision of possibly epitopic sequences.
(7) It is necessary to have these equipment in all hospitals and health centers in the area of a previsible disaster.
(8) Choice of sex in children with ambiguous genitalia requires morphological evaluation of external and internal genitalia together with prevision of the kind of pubertal and psychosexual development.
(9) The results are compared to the initial situation and to a prevision of growth without treatment.
(10) We conclude that data concerning the influence of a drug (in our case, allopurinol) on the metabolism of another drug cannot always authorize general deduction and previsions regarding the metabolic interferences on the pharmacokinetics of other substances.
(11) With a few examples the author describes briefly the role of epidemiological models to produce reliable previsions, the principles ruling their construction, their use on computer to simulate known epidemiological situations as well as the impact of interventions on the disease dynamics.
(12) As previsously demonstrated for 1'-acetoxysafrole, 1'-acetoxyestragole and 1'-acetoxy-1-allyl-4-methoxynaphthalene reacted nonenzymatically with guanosine and inosine to form adducts.
(13) Such modified criteria have improved the accuracy of LVH prevision.
(14) The neuropsychological study of three cases of FFI showed: (1) a progressive disturbance of attention and vigilance, (2) a memory deficit with lability of mnesic traces and difficulty in manipulation and ordering of events, suggesting an alteration of working memory and (3) a deficit of frontal abilities with impairment in planning and prevision of events but preservation of general intelligence.
(15) The authors believe that it is expedient to study bronchial hyperreactivity in patients with hay fever and rhinitis vasomotorica nonallergica in that it affords possibilities for the prevision of the conceivable unfavourable evolution of the disease towards the atopic or non-atopic bronchial asthma, as well as for the taking of adequate preventive and therapeutic measures.
(16) This leads to the prevision of very low barriers and amounts for the CNDO method to the failure in the prevision of some minima.
(17) The lung cancer is one of the lesser prevised cancer and the five year relative survival rate is 6.5% for both sexes in 1982-1983.
(18) Particularly, punctual time predictability of radon concentration would no longer be possible, but a new prevision strategy would be necessary, considering the chaotic behavior of the phenomenon.
(19) The Oslo declaration, he argued, was weighted unfairly towards Israel; the scenario, previsioning an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho in advance of the other territories and agreement on the final status of Jerusalem, amounted to "an instrument of Palestinian surrender, a Palestinian Versailles".