Accurate vs Premise - What's the difference?

As an adjective accurate

is in exact or careful conformity to truth; the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate'' calculator; an ''accurate'' measure; ''accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

As a noun premise is

a proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

As a verb premise is

to state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.

accurate

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Adjective

(en-adj)

In exact or careful conformity to truth; the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate'' calculator; an ''accurate'' measure; ''accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

For more than 90% of the figures (mostly drawn during 1976-1990), either a scale, or the given magnification, will allow the user to derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.

Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.

(obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

* Bacon

Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below.

Usage notes

* We speak of a thing as correct' with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a '''correct''' account, a '''correct''' likeness, a man of ' correct deportment. * We speak of a thing as accurate' with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an '''accurate''' statement, an ' accurate detail of particulars. * We speak of a thing as exact' with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundancy; as, an '''exact''' coincidence, the '''exact''' truth, an ' exact likeness. * We speak of a thing as precise' when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if ''cut down'' thereto; as a '''precise''' conformity instructions; '''precisely''' right; he was very ' precise in giving his directions.

Synonyms

* correct * exact * just * nice * particular

Antonyms

* inaccurate

Derived terms

* accuracy * accurately

Anagrams

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premise

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Alternative forms

* (archaic), premiss

Noun

(en noun)

A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

* (William Shakespeare)

The premises observed, / Thy will by my performance shall be served.

(logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.

* Dr. H. More

While the premises stand firm, it is impossible to shake the conclusion.

(usually, in the plural, legal) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.

(usually, in the plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts (in this sense, used most often in the plural form).

* , chapter=19

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises , accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}

Coordinate terms

* conclusion

Derived terms

* major premise * minor premise

Verb

(premis)

To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.

To make a premise.

To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.

* Addison

I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task.

To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.

* Shakespeare

the premised flames of the last day

* E. Darwin

if venesection and a cathartic be premised

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