Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Strictly and completely in accord with fact; not deviating from truth or reality.
- adjective Characterized by accurate measurements or inferences with small margins of error; not approximate.
- adjective Characterized by strict adherence to standards or rules.
- transitive verb To force the payment or yielding of; extort.
- transitive verb To inflict (vengeance or punishment, for example).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To force or compel to be paid or yielded; demand or require authoritatively or menacingly.
- To demand of right or necessity; enjoin with pressing urgency.
- To claim; require.
- Synonyms Exact, Extort, Enforce. Extort is much stronger than exact, and implies more of physical compulsion applied or threatened. Exact and extort apply to something to be got; enforce to something to be done. Enforce expresses more physical and less moral compulsion than extort.
- To practise exaction.
- Closely correct or regular; strictly accurate; truly adjusted, adapted, conformable, or the like.
- Precisely correct or right; real; actual; veritable: as, the exact sum or amount; the exact time; those were his exact words. A statement is exact which does not differ from the true by any quantity, however small. See synonyms under accurate.
- Methodical; careful; not negligent; observing strict accuracy, method, rule, or order: as, a man exact in keeping appointments; an exact thinker.
- Characterized by or admitting of exactness or precision; precisely thought out or stated; dealing with definite facts or precise principles: as, an exact demonstration; the exact sciences.
- Steady; even; well-balanced.
- In English law, to call (a party) in court to answer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To practice exaction.
- transitive verb 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 orof before the one subjected to exaction. - adjective Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise
- adjective Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual
- adjective Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Precisely agreeing with a
standard , afact , or thetruth ; perfectlyconforming ; neitherexceeding norfalling short in any respect. - adjective Habitually
careful to agree with a standard, arule , or apromise ; accurate;methodical ;punctual - adjective Precisely or definitely conceived or stated;
strict . - adjective algebra Such that the
kernel of one homomorphism is theimage of the preceding one. - verb transitive To demand and
enforce thepayment orperformance of. - verb transitive To make
desirable or necessary. - verb transitive To forcibly
obtain orproduce .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- adjective (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct
- verb claim as due or just
- adjective marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Science considers, primarily and predominantly, the more exact and rigorous relations of Phenomena; and the existence of an _exact_ and _definite_ point of departure in Thought and Being, more fundamental, from the
The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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The above is not the "Law of Exemptions" in exact words, but it is that part of it which was made for the Brethren, in _exact sense_.
Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk John Kline 1830
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Many of the foods that fuel us in the short term exact a damaging toll over time.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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Many of the foods that fuel us in the short term exact a damaging toll over time.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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Many of the foods that fuel us in the short term exact a damaging toll over time.
The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working Tony Schwartz 2010
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To help towards a clear understanding of both tendencies, Goethe describes an exercise which is characteristic of his way of schooling himself in what he called exact sensorial fantasy.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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Researchers at the two institutions have discovered what they describe as the exact sites where carbon is held in capture materials.
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Damn! That matters not since I can do this a thousand times in exact 50 word sequences without even a hint of punctuation without breathing in even once.
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Damn! That matters not since I can do this a thousand times in exact 50 word sequences without even a hint of punctuation without breathing in even once.
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Damn! That matters not since I can do this a thousand times in exact 50 word sequences without even a hint of punctuation without breathing in even once.
kalidas commented on the word exact
definition: exact, v, to demand
ex: qualms which exacted rites of expiation -- John Dewey
January 2, 2007