exact
Part of speech: adj
verb
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin exāctus (the verb via Middle English exact), perfect passive participle of exigō (“demand, claim as due; measure by a standard, weigh, test”), from ex (“out”) + agō (“drive”).
Inflected forms:
form: exacter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more exact
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: exactest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most exact
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: exacts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exacting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exacted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exacted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more exact
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most exact
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
pos: adj
examples: The clock keeps exact time.
He paid the exact debt.
an exact copy of a letter
exact accounts
gloss: Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
pos: adj
examples: a man exact in observing an appointment
In my doings I was exact.
I see thou art exact of taste.
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
gloss: Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
pos: adj
examples: An exact command,
 Larded with many several sorts of reason.
gloss: Such that the kernel of each morphism is the image of the preceding one.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Such that it preserves short exact sequences.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone
He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
Their goal is retributive: to exact a price from Palestinian civilians (and in some cases left-wing Israeli Jews, Christians, and Israeli security forces) for actions Israeli authorities take against the settlers, usually building enforcement in illegally built settlements.
She was a superb judge who gave her best and exacted the best from each of us, whether in agreement or disagreement.
[…] a generic, strikingly universal, deity, “ha-elohim,” who tests, who exacts and extracts, and who is the object of fear […]
gloss: To make desirable or necessary.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I vvait, Madam, / To knovv vvhat your commands are; my deſignes / Exact me in another place.
gloss: To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce; to visit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to exact revenge on someone
gloss: exactly
pos: adv
examples: She's wearing the exact same sweater as I am!
Synonyms: spot on
Antonyms: inexact
imprecise
approximate
loose
Derived words: exactamundo
exact change
exact cover
exactification
exactify
exactly
exactment
exactness
exact rhyme
exact same
exact science
exact sequence
long exact sequence
nonexact
overexact
same exact
short exact sequence
superexact
unexact
exactable
exacter
exacting
exaction
exactor
unexacted
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