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STRICTLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restricted to something

Example:

we talked strictly business

Synonyms:

purely; strictly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a rigorous manner

Example:

he had been trained rigorously by the monks

Synonyms:

rigorously; strictly

Classified under:

Adverbs

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)

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 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)