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sketchy description

  • 1 описание

    ср.
    description; (тж. действий) account
    - яркое описание

    Русско-английский словарь по общей лексике > описание

  • 2 схематическое описание

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > схематическое описание

  • 3 pobieżnoś|ć

    f sgt książk. sketchiness (czegoś of sth)
    - pobieżność opisu a sketchy description

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > pobieżnoś|ć

  • 4 somero

    adj.
    1 shallow, superficial.
    2 summary.
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    1 figurado (superficial) superficial, shallow; (breve) brief
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=a poca profundidad) shallow
    2) (=poco detallado) superficial, summary frm
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    - ra adjetivo superficial, summary (frml)
    * * *
    = mild, sketchy [sketchier -comp., sketchiest -sup.], perfunctory.
    Ex. If the spot stays yellow the paper is decidedly acid; an in-between colour (green, grey, grey-green, yellow-green) indicates mild acidity; while if the spot goes purple, the paper is near-neutral or alkaline.
    Ex. I recently did a sketchy biography of Lucille Morsch and had to go back and read all the material on her career.
    Ex. It really is distressing to observe in some libraries the casual and perfunctory way in which enquirers obviously seeking help are treated as persons.
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    * espiga de la somera = head tenon.
    * mortaja de la somera = head mortise.
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    - ra adjetivo superficial, summary (frml)
    * * *
    = mild, sketchy [sketchier -comp., sketchiest -sup.], perfunctory.

    Ex: If the spot stays yellow the paper is decidedly acid; an in-between colour (green, grey, grey-green, yellow-green) indicates mild acidity; while if the spot goes purple, the paper is near-neutral or alkaline.

    Ex: I recently did a sketchy biography of Lucille Morsch and had to go back and read all the material on her career.
    Ex: It really is distressing to observe in some libraries the casual and perfunctory way in which enquirers obviously seeking help are treated as persons.
    * espiga de la somera = head tenon.
    * mortaja de la somera = head mortise.

    * * *
    somero -ra
    1 ‹análisis/descripción/estudio› superficial, summary ( frml)
    2 ‹aguas› shallow
    rocas someras rocks just below the surface of the water
    * * *

    somero,-a adjetivo
    1 (sucinto, insustancial) slight, superficial
    una somera descripción de los hechos, a brief description of the facts
    2 (superficial) superficial
    ' somero' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    somera
    English:
    cursory
    - perfunctory
    * * *
    somero, -a adj
    1. [superficial] superficial
    2. [breve] brief
    3. [aguas] shallow
    * * *
    adj superficial
    * * *
    somero, -ra adj
    : superficial, cursory, shallow

    Spanish-English dictionary > somero

  • 5 skizzenhaft

    I Adj. sketchy, rough
    II Adv. beschreiben: in rough outline; man sah skizzenhaft angedeutet you could see the rough outlines of
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    skịz|zen|haft
    1. adj
    Zeichnung etc roughly sketched; Beschreibung etc (given) in broad outline
    2. adv
    * * *
    * * *
    skiz·zen·haft
    I. adj
    1. (einer Skizze ähnelnd) roughly sketched
    II. adv
    etw \skizzenhaft beschreiben/festhalten/zeichnen to give a rough description of sth/to put sth down in outline/to sketch sth roughly
    * * *
    A. adj sketchy, rough
    B. adv beschreiben: in rough outline;
    man sah skizzenhaft angedeutet you could see the rough outlines of
    * * *
    adj.
    sketchy adj. adv.
    sketchily adv.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > skizzenhaft

  • 6 descripción

    f.
    1 description, definition, outline, describing.
    2 word picture.
    * * *
    1 description
    2 (acción de trazar) tracing, describing, description
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    noun f.
    * * *
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    femenino description
    * * *
    = description, disclosure, identification, picture, specification, specifications, profiling, depiction, recounting, portrayal.
    Ex. The indexing process creates a description of a document or information, usually in some recognized and accepted style of format.
    Ex. The patent abstract is a concise statement of the technical disclosure of the patent and must emphasize that which is new in the context of the invention.
    Ex. The second step towards an index involves the identification of the concepts within a document which are worthy of indexing.
    Ex. No pretence is made of their being either a balanced or complete picture of the article.
    Ex. The Working Group was charged with the specification of the procedures and studies needed to undertake the tasks.
    Ex. The specifications, however, are confined to the overall structure and major functional components of the entry.
    Ex. Some excursions into cognitive science have led to the profiling of users' backgrounds, differences and immediate need.
    Ex. Miss Laski suggests that the depiction of life found in many novels is naive, over-simplified and, as a constant diet, can do more harm than good.
    Ex. This is a recounting of the technologies most likely to facilitate the sharing of resources among libraries.
    Ex. Pictorial sources are created by the portrayal of historical events or subjects using, inter alia, a paint brush, drawing-pen, or pencil, graphic techniques or the camera.
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    * área de descripción = area of description.
    * área de descripción física = physical description area.
    * Centro Internacional para la Descripción Bibliográfica del UNISIST = UNIBID.
    * descripción analítica = analytical description.
    * descripción bibliográfica = bibliographic description.
    * descripción bibliográfica de primer nivel = first-level bibliographic description.
    * Descripción Bibliográfica Normalizada Internacional (ISBD) = ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description).
    * Descripción Bibliográfica Normalizada Internacional - material antiguo (ISBD = ISBD(A) (International Standard Bibliographic Description - Antiquarian).
    * descripción catalográfica = cataloguing description.
    * Descripción de Archivos Codificada (EAD) = Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
    * descripción de documentos de archivo = archival description.
    * descripción de las funciones = job description, job profile.
    * descripción del contenido = subject statement.
    * descripción del documento = document description.
    * descripción del puesto de trabajo = job description, position description, job profile.
    * descripción del solicitante = personnel description.
    * descripción de subcampo = subfield description.
    * descripción documental = document description.
    * descripción física = physical description, physical details.
    * descripción global = outline.
    * hacer una descripción = give + description.
    * ISBD(S) (Descripción Bibliográfica Normalizada Internacional para Publicacio = ISBD(S) (International Standard Bibliographic Description - Serials).
    * Manual de Descripción de Archivos = Manual of Archival Description (MAD).
    * niveles de detalle en la descripción = levels of detail in the description.
    * Norma General Internacional para la Descripción de Archivos (ISAD-G) = General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G)).
    * Norma Internacional para la Descripción de Archivos (ISAD) = International Standard Archival Description (ISAD).
    * * *
    femenino description
    * * *
    = description, disclosure, identification, picture, specification, specifications, profiling, depiction, recounting, portrayal.

    Ex: The indexing process creates a description of a document or information, usually in some recognized and accepted style of format.

    Ex: The patent abstract is a concise statement of the technical disclosure of the patent and must emphasize that which is new in the context of the invention.
    Ex: The second step towards an index involves the identification of the concepts within a document which are worthy of indexing.
    Ex: No pretence is made of their being either a balanced or complete picture of the article.
    Ex: The Working Group was charged with the specification of the procedures and studies needed to undertake the tasks.
    Ex: The specifications, however, are confined to the overall structure and major functional components of the entry.
    Ex: Some excursions into cognitive science have led to the profiling of users' backgrounds, differences and immediate need.
    Ex: Miss Laski suggests that the depiction of life found in many novels is naive, over-simplified and, as a constant diet, can do more harm than good.
    Ex: This is a recounting of the technologies most likely to facilitate the sharing of resources among libraries.
    Ex: Pictorial sources are created by the portrayal of historical events or subjects using, inter alia, a paint brush, drawing-pen, or pencil, graphic techniques or the camera.
    * área de descripción = area of description.
    * área de descripción física = physical description area.
    * Centro Internacional para la Descripción Bibliográfica del UNISIST = UNIBID.
    * descripción analítica = analytical description.
    * descripción bibliográfica = bibliographic description.
    * descripción bibliográfica de primer nivel = first-level bibliographic description.
    * Descripción Bibliográfica Normalizada Internacional (ISBD) = ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description).
    * Descripción Bibliográfica Normalizada Internacional - material antiguo (ISBD = ISBD(A) (International Standard Bibliographic Description - Antiquarian).
    * descripción catalográfica = cataloguing description.
    * Descripción de Archivos Codificada (EAD) = Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
    * descripción de documentos de archivo = archival description.
    * descripción de las funciones = job description, job profile.
    * descripción del contenido = subject statement.
    * descripción del documento = document description.
    * descripción del puesto de trabajo = job description, position description, job profile.
    * descripción del solicitante = personnel description.
    * descripción de subcampo = subfield description.
    * descripción documental = document description.
    * descripción física = physical description, physical details.
    * descripción global = outline.
    * hacer una descripción = give + description.
    * ISBD(S) (Descripción Bibliográfica Normalizada Internacional para Publicacio = ISBD(S) (International Standard Bibliographic Description - Serials).
    * Manual de Descripción de Archivos = Manual of Archival Description (MAD).
    * niveles de detalle en la descripción = levels of detail in the description.
    * Norma General Internacional para la Descripción de Archivos (ISAD-G) = General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G)).
    * Norma Internacional para la Descripción de Archivos (ISAD) = International Standard Archival Description (ISAD).

    * * *
    description
    hizo una fiel descripción de los hechos she gave an accurate description o account of events
    * * *

     

    descripción sustantivo femenino
    description
    descripción sustantivo femenino description
    ' descripción' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    caracterización
    - corresponderse
    - retratar
    - retrato
    - seña
    - somera
    - somero
    - viva
    - vivo
    - calificación
    - corresponder
    - detallado
    - encajar
    - exacto
    - impresionista
    - reseña
    - responder
    - sensual
    - sensualidad
    English:
    colourful
    - delineate
    - description
    - exact
    - fit
    - full
    - job description
    - loose
    - match
    - sketch
    - sketchy
    - understatement
    - vivid
    - with
    - answer
    - depiction
    - job
    - portrayal
    * * *
    description;
    una descripción de los hechos an account of what happened
    * * *
    f description
    * * *
    descripción nf, pl - ciones : description
    * * *
    descripción n description

    Spanish-English dictionary > descripción

  • 7 Artificial Intelligence

       In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)
       Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)
       Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....
       When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)
       4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually
       Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)
       What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)
       The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)
       9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form
       The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)
       There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:
        Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."
        Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)
       Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)
       Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)
       The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)
        14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation
       It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)
       We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.
       Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.
       Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.
    ... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)
       Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)
        16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts
       Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)
       Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System
       Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence
       The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.
       The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)
       The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....
       AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)
        21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions
       In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)
       Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)
       Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)
       The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Artificial Intelligence

  • 8 preciso

    adj.
    1 precise, accurate, correct, exact.
    2 precise, demanding great precision, persnickety, probing.
    3 necessary, required.
    4 exact, meticulous.
    5 accurate, precise.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: precisar.
    * * *
    1 precise, exact, accurate
    2 (necesario) necessary
    \
    en el preciso momento que at the precise moment that, just as
    ser preciso to be necessary, be essential
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    (f. - precisa)
    adj.
    2) accurate, precise
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=exacto) precise

    un reloj muy preciso — a very precise o accurate watch

    2) (=justo)
    3) (=necesario) necessary
    4) [estilo, lenguaje] concise
    5) Caribe [persona] conceited
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    1)
    a) (exacto, claro) precise

    ¿me puede dar datos más precisos? — can you give me more detailed information

    en este preciso momento — right now, this very minute

    2) ( necesario) necessary

    si es preciso — if necessary, if need be

    ser preciso + INF — to be necessary to + inf

    * * *
    = accurate, precise, sharp [sharper -comp., sharpest -sup.], strict [stricter -comp., strictest -sup.], undeviating, coextensive [co-extensive].
    Ex. An abstract is a concise and accurate representation of the contents of a document, in a style similar to that of the original document.
    Ex. This planning phase involves moving from a vague impression that a thesaurus might be useful to a fairly precise profile for the thesaurus.
    Ex. 'I'll give it more thought,' she said with a sharp frown, resuming her former posture.
    Ex. This may lead to deviations from the strict and most obvious alphabetical sequence.
    Ex. Happily the rules of quasi-facsimile are easily mastered; what is difficult is to observe them with scrupulous, undeviating accuracy.
    Ex. Bibliographies in general are also retrieval devices; the difference here is that the bibliography is not coextensive with the stock of the library it may omit items in stock and include others not in stock.
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    * de forma precisa = precisely.
    * de manera precisa = precisely.
    * el momento preciso = the point in time at which.
    * hacer más preciso = tightening up.
    * muy preciso = much needed [much-needed].
    * regla muy precisa = finely graduated scale.
    * ser demasiado preciso = put + too fine a point on, split + hairs.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    1)
    a) (exacto, claro) precise

    ¿me puede dar datos más precisos? — can you give me more detailed information

    en este preciso momento — right now, this very minute

    2) ( necesario) necessary

    si es preciso — if necessary, if need be

    ser preciso + INF — to be necessary to + inf

    * * *
    = accurate, precise, sharp [sharper -comp., sharpest -sup.], strict [stricter -comp., strictest -sup.], undeviating, coextensive [co-extensive].

    Ex: An abstract is a concise and accurate representation of the contents of a document, in a style similar to that of the original document.

    Ex: This planning phase involves moving from a vague impression that a thesaurus might be useful to a fairly precise profile for the thesaurus.
    Ex: 'I'll give it more thought,' she said with a sharp frown, resuming her former posture.
    Ex: This may lead to deviations from the strict and most obvious alphabetical sequence.
    Ex: Happily the rules of quasi-facsimile are easily mastered; what is difficult is to observe them with scrupulous, undeviating accuracy.
    Ex: Bibliographies in general are also retrieval devices; the difference here is that the bibliography is not coextensive with the stock of the library it may omit items in stock and include others not in stock.
    * de forma precisa = precisely.
    * de manera precisa = precisely.
    * el momento preciso = the point in time at which.
    * hacer más preciso = tightening up.
    * muy preciso = much needed [much-needed].
    * regla muy precisa = finely graduated scale.
    * ser demasiado preciso = put + too fine a point on, split + hairs.

    * * *
    preciso -sa
    A
    1 (exacto, detallado) precise
    ¿me puede dar datos más precisos? can you give me more detailed information o more precise details?
    necesitamos instrucciones más precisas we need more precise o more accurate o clearer instructions
    se expresó con un lenguaje preciso y llano he expressed himself in precise, simple terms
    ¿tiene que ser en este preciso momento? does it have to be right this minute? o right now? o this very minute?
    en el preciso momento en que salía just as he was going out
    en este preciso lugar in this very spot
    3
    ( Col fam) (seguro): preciso que salgo y suena el teléfono I bet the phone rings as soon as I go out ( colloq)
    B (necesario) necessary
    si es preciso se pide un préstamo if necessary we can ask for a loan
    si es preciso tendremos que contárselo if need be we'll have to tell him
    haré lo que sea preciso I will do whatever is necessary o whatever I have to
    factores que hacen precisa la planificación de la economía factors which make economic planning necessary o a necessity
    ser preciso + INF to be necessary to + INF
    no es preciso entregarlo hoy it doesn't have to be handed in today, it's not necessary to hand it in today
    fue preciso darle un sedante he had to be given a sedative
    ser preciso + SUBJ:
    es preciso que te vayas inmediatamente you must go right away, it is essential that you leave immediately
    será preciso que vayas a buscarlo it will be necessary for you to go and find him, you will have to go and find him
    no es preciso que estemos todos con ella there's no need for all of us to be with her, we needn't all be with her
    * * *

     

    Del verbo precisar: ( conjugate precisar)

    preciso es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    precisó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    precisar    
    preciso
    precisar ( conjugate precisar) verbo transitivo
    1 ( determinar con exactitud) to specify
    2 ( necesitar) to need
    preciso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo

    1
    a) (exacto, claro) precise



    en el preciso momento en que salía just as he was going out;
    en este preciso lugar in this very spot
    2 ( necesario) necessary;

    ser preciso hacer algo to be necessary to do sth;
    es preciso que la veas you must see her;
    no es preciso que vayamos todos there's no need for all of us to go
    precisar verbo transitivo
    1 (determinar) to specify
    2 (necesitar) to require, need
    preciso,-a adjetivo
    1 (exacto) precise, accurate: en ese preciso momento se fue la luz, at that very moment the light went off
    2 (claro) precise, clear
    3 (necesario) necessary, essential: no es preciso que vayas, there's no need for you to go
    ' preciso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    chabolismo
    - concreta
    - concreto
    - determinada
    - determinado
    - en
    - fiel
    - fraude
    - justa
    - justo
    - precisa
    - resaltar
    - revigorizar
    English:
    edge
    - exact
    - necessary
    - outlay
    - plan
    - precise
    - sketchy
    - specific
    - fine
    - loose
    - process
    - reintegrate
    * * *
    preciso, -a adj
    1. [exacto] precise;
    nos dio instrucciones precisas she gave us precise instructions;
    llegaste en el momento preciso en el que me marchaba you arrived exactly as I was leaving;
    el accidente ocurrió en este preciso lugar the accident happened right here o on this very spot
    2. [necesario]
    carecen de los medios precisos they lack the necessary means;
    ser preciso (para algo/hacer algo) to be necessary (for sth/to do sth);
    fue preciso llamar a los bomberos the fire brigade had to be called;
    es preciso que vengas you must come;
    no es preciso que madrugues there's no need for you to get up early;
    será preciso que obtengan un permiso it will be necessary for them to get a permit;
    cuando sea preciso when necessary;
    si es preciso, llámame call me if necessary;
    si es preciso, contrataremos a un consultor if necessary, we will hire a consultant
    3. [conciso] exact, precise;
    utiliza un lenguaje muy preciso he uses very precise language
    * * *
    adj precise, accurate;
    ser preciso be necessary
    * * *
    preciso, -sa adj
    1) exacto: precise
    2) : very, exact
    en ese preciso instante: at that very instant
    3) necesario: necessary
    * * *
    preciso adj
    1. (exacto) accurate
    2. (determinado) precise
    ser preciso must / have to

    Spanish-English dictionary > preciso

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