Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb In an exact manner; accurately.
- adverb In all respects; just.
- adverb As you say. Used to indicate agreement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an exact manner; precisely according to rule, measure, fact, circumstance, etc.; with minute correctness; accurately: as, a tenon exactly fitted to the mortise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb manner without
approximation ;precisely . - adverb focus Used to provide emphasis.
- interjection Signifies
agreement orrecognition
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a precise manner
- adverb indicating exactness or preciseness
- adverb just as it should be
Etymologies
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Examples
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Because it smells exactly and I mean *exactly* like Wint-o-green Life Savers.
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Because it smells exactly and I mean *exactly* like Wint-o-green Life Savers.
December 2006 2006
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"You'll do exactly what I tell you, _exactly_, without asking how or why?"
Through the Wall Cleveland Moffett 1894
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And as we know, doing exactly what Bush wants, no questions asked is *exactly* the same as failing to oppose him in all things no matter what even if it means abandoning a liberal cause he happens to take up, the bastard.
"Why are the major Democratic presidential candidates standing on the sidelines when it comes to ending the war and zero tolerance for torture?" Ann Althouse 2007
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a dollar in my pocket and she walks exactly to please me -- walks _exactly_ to please me.
Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet Olive Tilford Dargan 1918
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Wikus isn’t exactly a Nazi, in the same way that modern European meddlers in the 3rd world aren’t *exactly* Nazis…they only kill unborn undesireables.
What Secrets Lurk Within District 9? White Anxiety | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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But a given climate model, if fed with exactly the same inputs, should be re-runnable to produce * exactly* the same outputs, down to the lowest bit (and if it isn't reproducible down to the lowest bit it will rapidly diverge: there is a good illustration of this in
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Hannah pulled her head up, her expression exactly the same as that of the little girl she had once been, caught with her hand in the biscuit tin.
The Home for Broken Hearts Rowan Coleman 2010
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And another book that James gave me - I can't remember the title exactly but it's something like the Story of Long Tack Sam.
On my way back shortly... sdn 2007
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It was called, if I remember the title exactly, The Christian
Waverley 2004
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