Exact

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Strictly and completely in accord with fact; not deviating from truth or reality: an exact account; an exact replica; your exact words.
  • adj. Characterized by accurate measurements or inferences with small margins of error; not approximate: an exact figure; an exact science.
  • adj. Characterized by strict adherence to standards or rules: an exact speaker.
  • v. To force the payment or yielding of; extort: exact tribute from a conquered people.
  • v. To demand and obtain by or as if by force or authority: a harsh leader who exacts obedience. See Synonyms at demand.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
  • adj. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual
  • adj. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
  • adj. Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.
  • v. To demand and enforce the payment or performance of.
  • v. To make desirable or necessary.
  • v. To forcibly obtain or produce.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise
  • adj. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual
  • adj. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
  • v. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To practice exaction.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
  • adj. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct
  • v. claim as due or just
  • adj. marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact
  • Equivalent
    correct    right    photographic    direct    verbatim    mathematical    rigorous    perfect    strict    literal   
    Verb Form
    exacted    exactement    exacting    exactness    exacts   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    need    necessitate    call for    take    involve    require    postulate    ask    demand   
    Cross Reference
    strict    accurate    definite    ask    extort    the exact sciences   
    Form
    exacted    exacting    exactor    exactable    exacter   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    true    correct    precise    accurate    methodical    punctual    strict    take    have   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    abstract    act    attacked    attract    backed    blacked    compact    contract    counterattacked    cracked   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    precise    proper    critical    strict    eternal    plain    where    half-waking    itto    passive