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STRICTLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Restricted to something
Example:
we talked strictly business
Synonyms:
purely; strictly
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a rigorous manner
Example:
he had been trained rigorously by the monks
Synonyms:
rigorously; strictly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
strict (rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard)
Sense 3
Meaning:
In a stringent manner
Example:
stringently controlled
Synonyms:
strictly; stringently
Classified under:
Adverbs
Pertainym:
strict (rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard)
Context examples:
Often used interchangeably as a synonym for subject but healthy volunteers are not, strictly speaking, patients.
(Patient, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Some of the people threw up stones, hoping to drive the monkey down; but this was strictly forbidden, or else, very probably, my brains had been dashed out.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The G1/S transition in eukaryotic cells is strictly regulated so that DNA replication occurs only once during S phase.
(CDC7L1 Kinase Complex, NCI Thesaurus)
Strictly a feline disease, FIV cannot be transmitted to humans.
(Feline Immunodeficiency Virus, NCI Thesaurus)
If you need to make a transaction, you will keep it under the radar and strictly confidential.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
These findings indicate that effective vaccines should thus be based strictly on the ground-state, pre-fusion form of the spike.
(The Structure and Dynamics of HIV Surface Spikes, NIH)
A species of strictly anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Bacteroidetes.
(Alistipes putredinis, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of bacteria within the phylum Proteobacteria consisting of strictly aerobic nonfermentative gram-negative bacilli.
(Acinetobacter, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of strictly anaerobic, Gram positive, rod shaped bacteria in the phylum Actinobacteria.
(Atopobium minutum, NCI Thesaurus)
It was my hope when I came here, said Mr. Micawber, to have got Wilkins into the Church: or perhaps I shall express my meaning more strictly, if I say the Choir.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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