different between accurate vs attested

English

Etymology

• First attested in the 1610s.
• (exactness): First attested in the 1650s.
• From Latin acc?r?tus (“done with care”), perfect past participle of acc?r? (“take care of”); from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + c?r? (“take care”), from c?ra (“care”).
• See cure.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æk.j?.??t/, /?æk.j?.??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æk.j?.??t/

Adjective

accurate (comparative more accurate, superlative most accurate)

1. Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty
2. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.

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

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

Translations

Anagrams

• carucate

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

accurate

1. Inflected form of accuraat

Interlingua

Adjective

accurate (comparative plus accurate, superlative le plus accurate)

1. accurate

Related terms

• accuratia

Italian

Adjective

accurate f pl

1. feminine plural of accurato

Anagrams

• cacature

Latin

Etymology

From acc?r?tus (“elaborate, exact”)

Adverb

acc?r?t? (comparative acc?r?tius, superlative acc?r?tissim?)

1. carefully, precisely, exactly

Related terms

• acc?r?ti?
• acc?r?tus
• acc?r?

References

• accurate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• accurate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• accurate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?st?d/

Verb

attested

1. simple past tense and past participle of attest

Adjective

attested (comparative more attested, superlative most attested)

1. Proven; shown to be true with evidence
2. Supported with testimony
3. Certified as good, correct, or pure
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, First Folio edition, Act V, Scene 1:

     A Contract of eternall bond of loue,

     Confirm'd by mutuall ioynder of your hands,

     Atte?ted by the holy clo?e of lippes,

4. (linguistics) Of words or languages, proven to have existed by records.

   • A term should be included if it's likely that someone would run across it and want to know what it means. This in turn leads to the somewhat more formal guideline of including a term if it is attested and idiomatic.

   The word slæpwerig (sleep-weary) is attested in the Exeter Book in the form slæpwerigne.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• approved
• cited
• documented
• proven
• supported