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Exact   /ɪgzˈækt/   Listen
Exact

adjective
1.
Marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact.  "An exact copy" , "Hit the exact center of the target"
2.
(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct.  Synonyms: accurate, precise.  "A precise measurement"
verb
(past & past part. exacted; pres. part. exacting)
1.
Claim as due or just.  Synonym: demand.
2.
Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.  Synonyms: claim, take.  "The hard work took its toll on her"



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"Exact" Quotes from Famous Books



... "you do not see how useless to you will be the sacrifice that you exact from me. Listen! you have not appeared much in society; and when you did, it was in the character of my betrothed; as soon as I withdraw hosts of aspirants for your ...
— Caught In The Net • Emile Gaboriau
... these Hemispheres, as they seem'd to be pretty neer the true shape of a Hemisphere, so was the surface exceeding smooth and regular, reflecting as exact, regular, and perfect an Image of any Object from the surface of them, as a small Ball of Quick-silver of that bigness would do, but nothing neer so vivid, the reflection from these being very languid, ...
— Micrographia • Robert Hooke
... by the followers of Zoroaster, as well as by the Hindus? The ox Nardi, the emblem of life in nature, is the son of the creating father, or rather his life-giving breath. Ammianus Marcellinus mentions, in one of his works, that there exists a book which gives the exact age of Apis, the clue to the mystery of creation and the cyclic calculations. The Brahmans also explain the allegory of the ox Nardi by the continuation of life ...
— From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan • Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
... man in the height of his powers. A pure and simple biography cannot always determine with any satisfaction its subject's literary standing. Critical studies of classic authors do not usually give any preciseness about the exact ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke
... keyed them for smoking versus incidence. And I found that not one heavy smoker had died of Thurston's Disease. Light smokers and nonsmokers—plenty of them—but not one single nicotine addict. And there were over ten thousand randomized cards in that spot check. And there's the exact reverse of that classic experiment the lung cancer boys used to sell their case. Among certain religious groups which prohibit smoking there was nearly one hundred per cent mortality ...
— Pandemic • Jesse Franklin Bone


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