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exact
Part of Speech: Noun
Results: 6
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.
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.
4. Exactly.
Part of Speech: verb
Part of Speech: noun
1. 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.
Examples of usage:
- It is impossible to give our exact line at the present moment. - "From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917", Philip Gibbs.
- Tell me the exact truth, please." - "Rung Ho!", Talbot Mundy.
- And yet he continued eager for gain; would cut as deep, exact as much from those who had need of his money in their business, as ever. - "The Home Mission", T.S. Arthur Edition: 10 Language: English.