Exact
[ɪg'zækt;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zækt]
Definition
(adj.) marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact; 'an exact mind'; 'an exact copy'; 'hit the exact center of the target' .
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Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
(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.
(v. i.) To practice exaction.
Edited by Barton
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Strict, scrupulous, methodical, punctual, nice, critical, upright, honest.[2]. Accurate, precise, literal, correct, true.
v. a. [1]. Extort, require authoritatively.[2]. Claim, demand.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ACCURATE]
Edited by Lizzie
Definition
v.t. to force from: to compel full payment of: to make great demands or to demand urgently: to extort: to inflict.—v.i. to practice extortion.—adj. precise: careful: punctual: true: certain or demonstrable.—p.adj. Exact′ing compelling full payment of: unreasonable in making demands.—ns. Exac′tion act of exacting or demanding strictly: an oppressive demand: that which is exacted as excessive work or tribute; Exact′itude exactness: correctness.—adv. Exact′ly.—ns. Exact′ment; Exact′ness quality of being exact: accuracy; Exact′or -er one who exacts: an extortioner: one who claims rights often too strictly:—fem. Exact′ress.—Exact sciences the mathematical sciences of which the results are demonstrable.
Typist: Susan
Examples
- Nothing could be more precise, exact, and orderly than Greenleaf. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Those were the exact words she used--taken down in my diary the moment I got home. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In effect, the voyage of the voice across the continent is instantaneous; if its speed should be accurately measured, a fifteenth of a second would probably be nearly exact. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I reckoned our coach to be about a square of Westminster-hall, but not altogether so high: however, I cannot be very exact. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- All these great walls are as exact and shapely as the flimsy things we build of bricks in these days. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is much shorter, and probably not quite so exact as that of the French taxes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Capitation taxes are levied at little expense; and, where they are rigorously exacted, afford a very sure revenue to the state. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Archer's New York tolerated hypocrisy in private relations; but in business matters it exacted a limpid and impeccable honesty. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- They levied taxes over great areas; they exacted indemnities for real or fancied opposition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Indeed, it demanded from him a constant attention, and a quickness of eye and hand, very like that exacted by wicket-keeping. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But the sum he exacted as a fee for my apprenticeship displeased my father, and I was taken home again. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The curse of Ate is on thee, they cry pitifully, nor will the goddess be satisfied until she has exacted her due penalty for neglect of the Olympians. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I found her a furrowed, grey-haired woman, grave with solitude, stern with long affliction, irritable also, and perhaps exacting. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They are not very exacting, after all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- You were exacting, proud, punctilious, selfish. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They took many things for granted that now we know need to be made the subject of the most exacting scientific study and the most careful adjustment. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is Mr. Rochester an exacting, fastidious sort of man? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was an inconvenient and exacting institution, as requiring everything in the universe to be filed down and fitted to it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I wish Society was not so arbitrary, I wish it was not so exacting--Bird, be quiet! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- If mine exacts its pains and penalties all round, so must hers, I suppose. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I foresee, in spite of the penalties which it exacts from me, that I shall have to return to the opium for the hundredth time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My sister, I suppose, exacts this care. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Philosophy is thinking what the known demands of us--what responsive attitude it exacts. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Checker: Nona