About The Word Exact

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Exact

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What's The Definition Of Exact?
[adj] exact in performance or amount; strictly correct; "a precise instrument"; "a precise measurement"
[adj] marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact; "an exact mind"; "an exact copy"; "hit the exact center of the target" [v] take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" [v] claim as due or just; "The bank demanded payment of the loan" Synonyms | Synonyms for Exact: accurate | claim | correct | direct | literal | mathematical | photographic | precise | right | rigorous | strict | take | verbatim | word-for-word Related Terms | Find terms related to Exact: accurate | appreciative | ask | ask for | assess | attentive | badger | be hurting for | be indicated | blackmail | brook no denial | burden with | call for | careful | challenge | charge | charge for | claim | clamor for | close | compel | conscientious | conscionable | constant | consummate | correct | critical | cry for | cry out for | delicate | demand | demanding | detailed | dictate | differential | direct | discriminate | discriminating | discriminative | distinctive | distinguishing | enforce | enjoin | even | exacting | exigent | express | exquisite | extort | extract | faithful | fasten upon | fastidious | faultless | fine | finical | finicking | finicky | force from | freight with | full | fussy | gouge | have occasion for | heedful | identical | impose | impose on | impose upon | indent | inerrable | inerrant | infallible | inflict on | inflict upon | insist on | insist upon | issue an ultimatum | lay | lay on | leave no option | levy | levy blackmail | literal | make a demand | make dutiable | mathematical | methodical | meticulous | micrometrically precise | microscopic | minute | narrow | necessitate | need | nice | oblige | order | order up | orderly | painstaking | particular | perfect | picayune | pinch | pinpoint | place | place an order | precious | precise | precisian | precisianistic | precisionist | precisionistic | prerequire | pro rata | proper | prorate | pry loose from | punctilious | punctual | puristic | put | put down | put in requisition | put on | put upon | refined | religious | religiously exact | rend | rend from | require | requisition | right | rigid | rigorous | rip | rip from | saddle with | scientific | scientifically exact | screw | scrupulous | scrutinizing | selective | selfsame | sensitive | set | severe | shake | shake down | snatch from | special | specific | square | squeeze | stick for | strict | subject to | subtle | tactful | take doing | take no denial | task | tax | tear from | thorough | tithe | true | undeviating | unerring | very | want | want doing | warn | weight down with | wrench | wrench from | wrest | wring | wring from | yoke with See Also | ask | call | call for | call in | command | demand | involve | necessitate | need | perfect | postulate | require Exact In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*act"\, a. [L. exactus precise, accurate, p. p. of
exigere to drive out, to demand, enforce, finish, determine,
measure; ex out + agere to drive; cf. F. exact. See {Agent},
{Act}.]
1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth;
perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short
in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock
keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of
a letter; exact accounts.
I took a great pains to make out the exact truth.
--Jowett
(Thucyd. )
2. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a
promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact
in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact. ``I
see thou art exact of taste.'' --Milton.
3. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of
reason. --Shak.
\Ex*act"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exacted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Exacting}.] [From L. exactus, p. p. of exigere; or fr. LL. exactare: cf. OF. exacter. See {Exact}, a.] To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one. He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you. --Luke. iii. 13. Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward at last --Dryden. My designs Exact me in another place. --Massinger. \Ex*act"\, v. i. To practice exaction. [R.] The anemy shall not exact upon him. --Ps. lxxxix. 22. |
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