Accurate vs. Reliable — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Accurate and Reliable
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Accurate
(especially of information, measurements, or predictions) correct in all details; exact
Accurate information about the illness is essential
An accurate assessment
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Reliable
Capable of being relied on; dependable
A reliable assistant.
A reliable car.
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Accurate
(with reference to a weapon, missile, or shot) capable of or successful in reaching the intended target
Reliable, accurate rifles
A player who can deliver long accurate passes to the wingers
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Reliable
Yielding the same or compatible results in different clinical experiments or statistical trials.
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Accurate
Conforming exactly to fact; errorless.
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Reliable
Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy
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Accurate
Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits from a standard.
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Reliable
Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't
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Accurate
Capable of providing a correct reading or measurement
An accurate scale.
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Reliable
Something or someone reliable or dependable
The old reliables
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Accurate
Acting or performing with care and precision; meticulous
An accurate proofreader.
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Reliable
Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy.
The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object.
According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable, being peopled in those agitated times by "unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs."
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Accurate
Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty
An accurate calculator
An accurate measure
Accurate knowledge
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Reliable
Worthy of reliance or trust;
A reliable source of information
A dependable worker
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Accurate
Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
My horoscopes I read last week were surprisingly accurate.
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Reliable
Conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief;
An authentic account by an eyewitness
Reliable information
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Accurate
(obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
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Reliable
Worthy of being depended on;
A dependable worker
An honest working stiff
A reliable source of information
He was true to his word
I would be true for there are those who trust me
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Accurate
In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.
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Accurate
Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below.
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Accurate
Conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy;
An accurate reproduction
The accounting was accurate
Accurate measurements
An accurate scale
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Accurate
(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct;
A precise image
A precise measurement
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