Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
carefully
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
carefully monitored
▪ The temperature is carefully monitored.
carefully orchestrated
▪ a carefully orchestrated promotional campaign
carefully staged (=not natural)
▪ The candidates’ public appearances were carefully staged.
carefully
▪ She watched very carefully and did exactly as he did.
carefully
▪ Think carefully about every spending decision you make.
consider...carefully
▪ We will have to consider your offer carefully.
listen carefully/intently/hard etc
▪ The whole class was listening attentively.
▪ Liz stood still and listened hard very carefully.
play it carefully/cool etc
▪ If you like him, play it cool, or you might scare him off.
search sth carefully
▪ We searched the whole house carefully, but didn’t find anything.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
planned
▪ Unexpected demands on your money can cause havoc with even the most carefully planned budgets - at least for a short while.
▪ This was to be the first of three stages in a carefully planned development of the imperial role and power.
▪ Dumb bells, hours of exercising and a carefully planned diet of vegetarian food and fruit juice had completed the programme.
▪ Care on discharge A carefully planned programme of subsequent care should be arranged before a patient is discharged from psychiatric inpatient treatment.
▪ It was the result of a carefully planned experiment based on numerous other experiments performed over a long period.
▪ This was achieved through a carefully planned programme of voluntary redundancies and with no manufacturing disruption or imbalance to the skill mix.
▪ Especially if more of the carefully planned meals end up on the wall than in the mouth.
■ VERB
avoid
▪ Marjorie carefully avoided looking at them.
▪ Clinton, while giving his blessing to the discussions, has carefully avoided endorsing any legislation.
▪ During most of Alexander's reign, the regime had carefully avoided all but minor military entanglements.
▪ They had carefully avoided eye-contact since the old man had entered.
▪ Agnes carefully avoided the girl's eye as she was shown straight through to Magill's office.
▪ They had carefully avoided any election pledge to dismantle the structure of New Deal and Fair Deal programmes.
▪ The Captain wiped the paint off his hands and carefully avoided showing his amusement.
▪ She put it back again without a word, carefully avoiding Susan's eyes.
check
▪ The Claim Form should be carefully checked for information that would indicate that any commercial use is taking place.
▪ This should be carefully checked on all occasions.
▪ Shops are being advised to carefully check all coins handed over.
▪ Adjusters reports should be carefully checked and any omissions or queries referred back to the Adjuster.
▪ She carefully checked to see that the weapon was cocked.
▪ As with index-linked rents, any mathematical formula should be carefully checked by calculator or computer.
▪ It is, of course, necessary to check carefully and individually the size of type that a visually impaired pupil can discriminate.
▪ Lady Thatcher's post was still heavy, despite her exile, and every packet and parcel was carefully checked.
choose
▪ Designer blasts from the past carefully chosen to look nice in a west London living room.
▪ I realize that what I do must be very carefully chosen.
▪ It is even possible to dissolve certain types of crystal if the foods used are special diets, carefully chosen by vets.
▪ The best suggestion when searching for a coworker-editor: choose carefully.
▪ He could afford to take it easy and he picked and chose carefully whatever he wanted to do.
▪ Augmenting the club-like atmosphere are the carefully chosen dark wood paneling, beveled stained glass and forest-green carpets.
▪ When horses are put together in paddocks, they need to be carefully chosen for their mutual compatibility.
▪ The cue maker then carefully chooses and seasons the wood, before tapering and sanding it down on a lathe.
consider
▪ The timing of an approach must be considered carefully.
▪ Now carefully consider the numerous modifications which stein from the addition of government.
▪ Professor Glennerster considered carefully the argument that expensive treatments might be refused by fund holders and found no evidence of that yet.
▪ This latter impression was then reinforced by his manner, which was quiet, polite, and very carefully considered.
▪ I carefully considered the information before me before deciding to issue the notice.
▪ Deborah carefully considered the types of punishments to use.
▪ Consider carefully which invitations to accept.
▪ They are real and should be carefully considered.
control
▪ It was carefully controlled by time and by geography - a day divided into three eight-hour slots.
▪ As an alternative to episiotomy, the delivery of the head can be carefully controlled.
▪ The patient's respiratory function is carefully controlled and monitored by the anaesthetist throughout the patient's stay in theatre.
▪ He has a new media coach and his public appearances have been carefully controlled.
▪ There was no secrecy about its contents, although it is delivered in limited and carefully controlled amounts.
design
▪ The town has been carefully designed to offer its visitors every amenity.
▪ He also explained that to be successful it would have to be carefully designed and properly constructed.
▪ The exact shape of the engine bell has to be very carefully designed.
▪ He came back with a carefully designed regimen for him-self and monthly appointments to return for check-ins.
▪ It has been carefully designed to develop and protect wildlife and plants while attracting many thousands of visitors.
▪ These harems could hardly have been more carefully designed as breeding machines, dedicated to the spread of emperors genes.
▪ In short, the whole project was carefully designed to produce a comprehensive visual cross-section of society in motion.
examine
▪ I carefully examined every photograph in minute detail through a magnifying glass so as not to miss a thing.
▪ The stigmata on this foot was carefully examined during its official recognition in 1597.
▪ You must reach behind the form or wording of the question, dismantle it and carefully examine each part. 1.
▪ In therapy he began to examine carefully the reasons for his previous passivity.
▪ A number of questions - not all of them obvious - need to be examined carefully, and from all possible angles.
▪ The feed is examined carefully, and at the slaughterhouse any bird with an appearance of disease is discarded.
▪ But it does point to the need to examine carefully the social processes registered by apparently simple concepts.
▪ The joints should be carefully examined for effusion, limitation of motion, or deformities.
listen
▪ He listens carefully to what the other person has to say about it.
▪ Wednesday she listened carefully as Attorney General Janet Reno testified in a subcommittee hearing on youth, violence and drugs.
▪ At the start, everyone was respectful towards him, listening carefully to his soporific explanations.
▪ Alan listens carefully as Jody explains her situation.
▪ He may care now to listen carefully.
▪ There is an additional objective to listening carefully: it helps you discover which words and meanings have become assets.
▪ Secondly, if you listen carefully you are more likely to make the right responses to what is being said to you.
▪ She was standing slightly curled, listening carefully to some one.
look
▪ Martha came forward to help, and Miss Mary looked carefully at Colin's thin white back, up and down.
▪ Like Nancy Drew, I track down clues, try to figure things out, look carefully at evidence, examine motives.
▪ Huy looked carefully at the girl's back, and found what he was seeking.
▪ He waved them into the room, looking carefully at Lee.
▪ Look carefully for single wires leading off the main lines and running across the fields to individual cottages.
▪ Mr. Speaker: I shall look carefully at the speech of the Secretary of State.
▪ He does appear to have looked carefully at various places, and in 1800 he settled in Ambleside.
▪ Look carefully at the casuals and see their threads beginning to unravel.
monitor
▪ The male now carefully monitors the temperature of the mound by prodding his beak into it.
▪ They chat about relationships and activities, while Levine carefully monitors Pieters for any sign of a viral offensive.
▪ Variations in joint commissioning practice between social services and health services will have to be piloted and monitored carefully.
▪ Patients' diets were carefully monitored also, to ensure that they had a low-calcium diet.
▪ Dosage and timing need to be carefully monitored.
▪ Regular reviews of progress will take place and students are asked to carefully monitor their own performance.
▪ All gauges are carefully monitored with regular readings taken to establish the performance of the engine at different settings and temperatures.
▪ Once a suitable agent has been found, progress should be carefully monitored.
orchestrate
▪ They had been procured in the early years of the century through a carefully orchestrated city campaign.
place
▪ Theirs are carefully placed slots made by cloven hooves, the ancient tread of wood-demons, Pan marks.
▪ The cof-fee table was carefully placed, carefully cleaned, the magazines ar-rayed just so.
▪ All the banqueting tables had been placed carefully, with full consideration to the dangers that abound on Samain.
▪ He carefully places the sliver into a miniature vise.
▪ An overnight case had been placed carefully on a sheet of newspaper.
▪ In New Zealand, jewelry is placed carefully in a casket.
▪ Once you are satisfied that the glass is spotless, carefully place it over the top of the design.
plan
▪ The whole life span of a record, including its creation needs to be planned carefully.
▪ There simply is no replacement for a rigorous, carefully planned sequence of academic course work.
▪ He planned carefully so that there was always time and no panic.
▪ As we saw in Chapter 7, a growing firm must plan carefully to finance its growth.
▪ The work should be planned carefully, however, to ensure that the pupils are getting something out of it as well.
▪ He carefully planned his exit from corporate life.
▪ All reports should be carefully planned, so you should first examine source material.
▪ However, the second sowing must be carefully planned.
read
▪ He read carefully, starting with the last issue where the facts would be most accurate, and working back.
▪ If this product is purchased, the label should be carefully read for content.
▪ This is one page you have to read, and read carefully.
▪ But when surgery is planned, patients have the luxury of carefully reading the information.
▪ Gregory's account needs to be read carefully.
▪ He must read carefully, compare one passage with another and use all the aids he can.
select
▪ Those to whom the questionnaire is sent have already been carefully selected as representative of the population to be studied.
▪ But there he was, already hunkered down, six carefully selected marbles from the others' collection, at his side.
▪ Material should also be selected carefully as the quality of the resource is more important than the quantity.
▪ It essentially involved asking individual children carefully selected questions and noting their responses and their reasoning for those responses.
▪ All the instructors are carefully selected by myself and they offer a very special service.
▪ This was Mark Rhoads, a first lieutenant in the Signal Corps who had been carefully selected for the assignment.
▪ Much of the time pupils will work on sources that have been carefully selected by the teacher.
▪ The date is carefully selected in consultation with merchant and consumer associations, he said.
study
▪ All the firms have detailed client agreement forms that need to be studied carefully.
▪ Magazine rankings of business schools are considered extremely influential; many prospective business students carefully study them in deciding where to apply.
▪ Before production is begun, of multi-kilogram or even multi-tonne lots, each reaction step is carefully studied in the pilot plant.
▪ The result was interesting and certainly one which I shall study carefully.
▪ Though I had carefully studied the fifth chapter of the Ethics, I still did not know how to control my emotions.
▪ The instructions had to be carefully studied, the little staircase sandpapered down and fitted into place.
▪ He either carefully studied these himself or arranged for research to be done on them by the most highly qualified specialists.
think
▪ Think carefully about your attitude towards the union and its representatives.
▪ This requires that we think carefully about the ways we organize schools and the daily experiences children have within them.
▪ The single man on average wages will think carefully before welcoming such an impost.
▪ Think carefully if you plan on becoming pregnant.
▪ If you are to attend the monthly progress review meeting, think carefully about the end-result you wish to achieve by attending.
▪ If contracts aren't exchanged, think carefully before you take a bridging loan.
▪ A carefully thought out project translates easily into specific amounts.
tread
▪ So she had to tread carefully.
▪ It is important, however, to tread carefully around the concept of core groups.
▪ They trod carefully away, shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip.
▪ Sadat now feels less restricted about what she can say, although she treads carefully around politics in her homeland.
▪ Evidence of the erosion is clear along the route and walkers should tread carefully.
▪ The press learned to tread carefully on the subject of their leaders' health during the Soviet era.
▪ Supervisors and personnel officers will be instructed to tread carefully when dealing with workers.
▪ It behooves companies to tread carefully in this area because even seemingly innocuous questions can get them into trouble.
watch
▪ As this is the stage at which material is actively removed, the sections should be watched carefully during this process.
▪ His or her behavior is carefully watched and not infrequently copied.
▪ She watched carefully as Travis lingered over his own cup.
▪ We carefully watched the flame of the hour candle eating away the wax from ring to ring.
▪ They relate the story in a hushed tone, watching carefully for a reaction.
▪ The companies are watching carefully lest other lobbyists try to slip the tougher provisions back in.
▪ Wishart had Corbett watched carefully but all the reports indicated that Corbett had not been officially despatched by Edward.
▪ Two things must be carefully watched.
word
▪ The agreement was carefully worded to give some satisfaction to both parties.
▪ In a carefully worded address, Wyman argued the paradoxical facts.
▪ In the prisoners' case, letters to the authorities should be worded carefully and courteously.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
carefully/clearly/strongly etc worded
▪ A strongly worded White House statement on March 7 had appealed for international support in stopping the operation of the Rabta plant.
▪ His criticisms have become so predictable and strongly worded that they are counter-productive.
▪ In a carefully worded address, Wyman argued the paradoxical facts.
▪ In a strongly worded letter this week to several dozen television stations, Rep.
▪ On the eve of the talks, the two sides had exchanged strongly worded statements on the issue.
▪ Once again, the agency sent a strongly worded warning letter, but took no punitive action.
▪ Pete Wilson yesterday, drawing a strongly worded veto but defining the battle lines after months of debate and anguished decisions.
▪ The agreement was carefully worded to give some satisfaction to both parties.
carefully/well/badly thought-out
▪ But new-wave sanitation experts say sewerage offers little more than convenience when compared to well thought-out latrines.
▪ Each section is well thought-out and presented with a good number of diagrams and chromatograms.
▪ It is here that the value of well thought-out objectives can be seen.
▪ The system is a well thought-out one and seems to work well.
tread carefully/warily/cautiously etc
▪ Evidence of the erosion is clear along the route and walkers should tread carefully.
▪ It behooves companies to tread carefully in this area because even seemingly innocuous questions can get them into trouble.
▪ It is important, however, to tread carefully around the concept of core groups.
▪ Sadat now feels less restricted about what she can say, although she treads carefully around politics in her homeland.
▪ So she had to tread carefully.
▪ Supervisors and personnel officers will be instructed to tread carefully when dealing with workers.
▪ The press learned to tread carefully on the subject of their leaders' health during the Soviet era.
▪ They trod carefully away, shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip.
well/badly/carefully etc organized
▪ From everything I saw and heard, he seemed to be very well organized in Iowa.
▪ In parliament there would be a carefully organized campaign of resistance that would at least slow the government down and raise Unionist morale.
▪ Now that the partisans were well organized in the Province of Parma they committed many acts of sabotage.
▪ Others around us, and we ourselves, demand that we always be well organized and hopeful.
▪ Professionals are well organized, never seen by their victims, and they don't kill.
▪ The anti-London lobby, however, was well organized and had financial arguments to back its case.
▪ They can also be extraordinarily well organized and methodical, as well as deliberate and purposeful.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The book must be handled carefully because of its age.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At night he carefully closed the corral and went home.
▪ Giving it a brisk stir, she carried it carefully upstairs.
▪ He turned his head to look at her, moving carefully to avoid waking her.
▪ In honest, carefully done scientific work, there is no compromise on stringent requirements for the conduct and interpretation of research.
▪ Nevertheless a carefully designed receptionist role that would take these misgivings into account, may be worth discussing.
▪ Slowly and carefully I swam round the dark walls of the castle.
▪ When the wild roses finished blooming, we collected the orange-red hips, carefully picked the skin off the compressed seeds.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carefully
Carefully \Care"ful*ly\, adv. In a careful manner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
carefully
adv. 1 (lb en obsolete) sorrowfully. 2 With care; attentively, circumspectly.
WordNet
carefully
adv. taking care or paying attention; "they watched carefully"
with caution or prudence or tact; "she ventured cautiously downstairs"; "they handled the incident with kid gloves" [syn: cautiously, with kid gloves] [ant: incautiously, incautiously]
Usage examples of "carefully".
The young students from Addis Ababa University, trained by their carefully selected mentors, began to march and agitate.
Her Anglic was North American, almost-but-not-quite Taxpayer class, the voice of someone who carefully copied the upper-class accents on the Tri-V.
These were carefully neutralised with the respective acids, rendered alkaline with 30 c.
New England shall have risen to its intended grandeur, it shall be as carefully recorded among the registers of the literati that Adams flourished in the second century after the exode of its first settlers from Great Britain, as it is now that Cicero was born in the six-hundred-and-forty-seventh year after the building of Rome.
They are on their own, lost, lost to this obscene place, a place larger than anyone can safely care for, the place his carefully isolated adaptor molecules locate and leave him to.
Shan carefully with much head-tilting, then stared at Ade for a few moments.
She lay still on the bed, with the rose fully extended, carefully watching the aerobatic display of the living shadows, measuring its quality.
Since the 1950s, the mallness of malls has involved a different set of characteristics: a shared parking lot, common ownership and management, uniform and aesthetically pleasing design, clear and consistent marketing goals, a carefully controlled commercial environment, a tenant mix designed to provide variety, and a wide range of consumer goods.
The allosaurus was carefully stalking Skuld, squaring off against the giant to keep him away from the mortal troops.
Forsaking the tactics which alpinists normally employed in almost every other range on earth, the Ultimate Summit proceeded carefully and slowly.
Awad carefully pointed out the traces of firethe conflagration of the Amorite invasion, which had marked the very stones and survived the millennia.
Jak turned the amphib, angling carefully around the jagged boulders that had fallen from above.
He used his authority carefully, to eliminate potential rivals or, as in the case of the Anabaptist just fed to the flames, people who might ask questions or demand government accountability.
Shutting the door carefully behind her, Andi inspect the four waiting pull-carts.
And so, very, very carefully, Andromeda bedded down the little floppy-limbed puppy at the bottom of her basket, and covered his weak protesting form with flowers and white grapes and a pink handkerchief.