Definition of exact in English:

exact

adjective ɛɡˈzaktɪɡˈzaktɪɡˈzækt

1Not approximated in any way; precise.
确切的
the exact details were still being worked out
确切的详情仍在研判中。
Example sentencesExamples
- And the thought is we can pull down the nebulous notion of beauty and make it exact and precise when we tie it to the notion of function; but in fact this doesn't work very well.
- As time progressed and more and more constraints and policies were put into force we became more and more aware of the need for exact and very precise entries in these documents.
- Officials also need to establish an exact definition of which unmarried partners should be entitled to pension benefits.
- Recent advances in our understanding of Palaeozoic tectonics, and in the precise dating of tectonic events require exact definitions of terminology.
- The team's remit has also been to establish the exact chronology of events and actions taken following the confirmation of the case on April 21.
- Both exact and approximate solutions to the problem have been developed.
- Astrophysicists can search for shadows by applying Newton's method, a mathematical way to refine approximate solutions into exact ones.
- You can also adjust three bars, like a graphic equaliser, controlling how recently the page was updated, how popular the site is and whether it is an exact or approximate word match.
- At an inquest into his death last November, a post-mortem examination failed to establish an exact cause of death but it was confirmed there were no suspicious injuries.
- Instead of using exact results, we approximated the chop zone probabilities by bounding the number of indel events, and the indel lengths per event.
- Again, these results are exact, not approximations.
- We are endeavouring to establish the exact details of what has happened.
- This is because pension trustees have a lot more discretion on deciding the exact definition of a ‘dependant’ in this situation.
- Every move is exact, precise, has purpose, shows rather than alludes, directs rather than suggests, shapes rather than evokes.
- The photos above come to you from Germany, near the border with France, at approximately the exact center of Western Europe.
- Generally, however, the difference between the exact and approximate solutions is not large, and overall trends are maintained.
- In the second book he gave exact and approximate methods to construct regular polygons.
- They've also confirmed the exact details of their site in Waterford.
- He could not confirm exact details about the gases which did escape but said they were not thought to be highly toxic.
- He gives precise details of the exact altitude of various well known stars at the moment of first contact.
Synonyms
definite, fixed, settled, decided, established, confirmed, agreed, clear-cut, concrete, hard and fast
1. 1.1 Accurate or correct in all details.
  准确的，精确的
  an exact replica, two feet tall, was constructed
  一个两英尺高的精确复制品被建造了起来。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He has, apparently, perfected a procedure that can re-impregnate Jessie with an exact genetic replica of her son.
  The word ‘copy’ implies an exact replica in size and detail.
  And the oval office in this library is the exact replica.
  The 1996 election was almost an exact replica of the 1992 one.
  The apartment was extremely close to being an exact replica of the Scott's.
  I felt like a monkey in a cage to be correctly exact.
  Alongside the Earl will be the Matthew of Bristol, an exact replica of the original ship captained by John Cabot more than 500 years ago that is believed to have made it to America before Columbus.
  Although, there are no mixing flaws, one could always criticize it for track selection and the fact that you know this CD is an exact replica of the set he is repeating city after city.
  Carefully mocked up on City of York Council headed notepaper, the letter that landed on our desk is an exact replica of those sent out to local residents asking for comments on a new planning application.
  A particular target is expected to be descendants of Scots living in the United States where an exact replica of Burns' birthplace has been built in a park in Atlanta, Georgia.
  Except for the school chaplain, who harped on about how Sunny was the exact replica of all the other students at the school, and so proud of the school motto… yeah right.
  It is an exact replica of the fountain in Versailles, just twice as large, and with those measurements it is one of the largest free-standing fountains in the world.
  The PCA spokesman said the weapon used by Larkins, who was unemployed, was an 8mm blank-firing weapon that was an exact replica of a police Glock handgun.
  The member did not read out correctly either the exact quote of what the Minister said or what is written here on the Order Paper.
  The model, which is currently being built to a scale of 1 to 50, is an exact replica of the the Admiral's flagship, and will be completed in May.
  The Legacy Lantern stands an impressive 2.5 metres high and is an exact replica of the Legacy symbol (a torch with a wreath of laurel).
  The Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963, but an exact replica has been constructed 200 metres away for visitors to see.
  Dr Freeman found that the main facade was relatively intact, although a flank wall needed to be rebuilt, some surviving bricks being chemically analysed to enable exact replicas to be made.
  I have since purchased exact, working replicas of Jerry and Knuck, which sit around my house and do a great job of scaring my maid every single time she walks into the room.
  The Viking museum in Roskilde has recently completed an exact replica of an 11 th century Irish built longship which will soon set sail to Ireland.
  Synonyms
  precise, accurate, correct, faithful, close, true, veracious, literal, strict, unerring, faultless, errorless, error-free, perfect, impeccable
  explicit, detailed, minute, meticulous, thorough, blow-by-blow
  British inch-perfect
  informal on the nail, on the mark, on the beam, on the button
  British informal spot on, bang on
  North American informal on the money
2. 1.2 (of a person) accurate and careful about minor details.
  （人）严谨的
  she was an exact, clever manager
  她是一个一丝不苟的、聪明的经理。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I am saying that I am not a member of your French culture, but I will not be a member of American culture, here; I am an exact entity, exact person.
  Synonyms
  careful, meticulous, painstaking, precise, punctilious, conscientious, rigorous, scrupulous, exacting
  methodical, systematic, well organized, ordered, orderly, controlled
3. 1.3 (of a subject of study) permitting precise measurements as a basis for rigorously testable theories.
  （研究课题）严密的
  psychomedicine isn't an exact science yet
  心理医学还不是一门非常严密的科学。
  Example sentencesExamples
  How drugs react in a horse's system is not an exact science.
  We must stress that assessing the security level of a cipher system is not an exact science.
  The old stone quarry is becoming a scientific center; philosophy, theology, exact sciences and biomedical sciences will be studied here.
  Share price valuation is not an exact science and is subject to assumptions that take into account many different parameters.
  I would like to say the following in addition: Lyndon LaRouche applies the method of the exact sciences, economics.
  But Mr Considine argued that tax forecasting was not an exact science and was subject to shifts in economic growth, which were difficult to predict.

verb ɛɡˈzaktɪɡˈzaktɪɡˈzækt

[with object]

1Demand and obtain (something) from someone.
强索；强要（某物，尤指付款）
he exacted promises that another Watergate would never be allowed to happen
Example sentencesExamples
- God would have exacted the pledge he required; the sacrifice would have taken place in that the death sentence had been pronounced.
- Physical safety and creature comforts exact a terrible price in that regard.
- In no case should an institution exact a price for these accommodations by demanding higher levels of productivity in exchange.
- China's notoriously dangerous mining industry has exacted a terrible toll in the first four months of 2003.
- The social pressures which forced pregnant teenagers and unwed mothers to relinquish their babies exacted an enormous price.
- However, his Fianna Fail cabinet colleagues exacted it as the price for passing his much-needed defamation bill.
- Recovery was permitted only in cases in which money was exacted under an unlawful demand by a public authority where the payment was made under a mistake of fact of under compulsion of some kind.
- The witch had exacted a terrible price from the mermaid - she would have legs, lovely legs, but she would never be quite like the humans around her.
- The summer marked the end of the campaigning season and having exacted some sort of tribute, taken hostages, and agreed some kind of alliance, Caesar returned to Gaul.
- A number of armed dissidents were apparently accounted for, but it was the innocent civilian population upon whom a terrible toll was exacted.
- The associated fighting exacted a terrible price of more than 3.5 million deaths, mainly from starvation and disease, according to aid agency estimates; the worst death toll since the Second World War.
- The frenetic pace of modern life, the dominance of capital, hype, noise and speed is exacting a terrible price on the people of God struggling to be faithful.
- The Wars of Napoleon had exacted a terrible price; total military and civilian deaths brought about by war numbered as high as four or five million.
- So maybe what he's saying is that if they fail to produce the ring or any information, he'll exact expectation damages.
- In a hierarchical conception of reality, the particular human being cannot defend his or her rights by demanding or exacting them independently of the whole.
- Demands for technical proficiency and joint capability have exacted a price on today's officers in the form of complex and extended career and professional military education demands.
- Land mines continue to exact a terrible toll on civilian populations around the world.
- The judge had exacted a terrible sentence on the guilty prisoners in his annoyance with the Jury's verdict who had gone totally against his guidance during the summing up.
- Crucially the monarch's capacity to exact the obedience he commands is, however, immediately challenged.
- I wonder if years of free aisle seats exact another sort of price: the ability to genuinely react and engage.
Synonyms
demand, require, insist on, command, call for, impose, request, ask for, expect, look for
extract, compel, force, wring, wrest, squeeze, obtain
archaic constrain
1. 1.1 Inflict (revenge) on someone.
  强行（报复）
  he exacts a cruel revenge against the winning candidate
  Example sentencesExamples
  But, after getting treatment, he was unable to exact a more lasting revenge as he slammed his spot kick to the World Cup winner's right, allowing him to make an easy save.
  To cartoon ‘The Chief’, as he was known by his worshippers, was definitely blasphemous and vengeance had to be exacted.
  Her vicious treatment of him prompts the circus freaks to band together and exact their own terrible revenge.
  I, personally, look forward to then spending the rest of my life hunting them down, per narrative convention, and exacting elaborately plotted revenge.
  The woman remains peaceful because, after ten years, vengeance has been exacted against her husband.
  Never take a slight personally, just sit back and wait until you can exact your cruel verbal revenge.
  As in Greek tragedy, the past exacts its revenges.
  Before you know it, they realize the errors of their ways, and the Richard character is being tortured and exacting misogynistic revenge.
  It is commonplace now to remark on the revenge exacted at Versailles.
  His whole life seems bent on exacting his own revenge on people.
  Now something I have only dreamed of happens - the son of that killer falls into my lap, and I can exact an even more acute form of revenge than I first expected.
  He never forgets any slight delivered upon him, and exacts revenge whenever and wherever possible.
  Arguably, to exact revenge or punishment by means of agricultural devastation was the essence of Greek warfare.
  They murdered all the members of Caligula's family, so there should be no one in whose name retribution might be exacted.
  He escapes, reinvents himself as a count and starts to exact cold, calculated revenge.
  And now, with so many other lives being taken away so quickly, retribution must be exacted.
  Using as his model the ten plagues of the Pharaohs from the Old Testament, he exacts his cruel revenge on the nine medical people involved using rats, bats, locusts, and hail, among others.
  His mind conjured the most amazing, most subtle and cruel plan to exact his revenge.
  Three years later the father of the murdered man turns up at a Jewish family wedding and exacts his own private revenge.
  And, if it thinks it faces a terrorist threat now, you can only imagine what kind of retribution would be exacted.
  Synonyms
  inflict, impose, deliver, administer, issue, apply

Derivatives

exactable

adjective ɛɡˈzaktəb(ə)lɪɡˈzaktəb(ə)lɪɡˈzæktəb(ə)l

exactitude

noun ɪɡˈzaktɪtjuːdɛɡˈzaktɪtjuːdɪɡˈzæktəˌt(j)ud

mass noun

1The quality of being precise or accurate.
it is not possible to say with any scientific exactitude what a dream means
1. 1.1 Care and attention to detail.
Example sentencesExamples
- Luxuriant tone, neat and precise passage work, rhythmic exactitude, strict dynamic control and near-perfect balance were features that were ever-present not only here but throughout the entire programme.
- Her 58-year-old body has remained a remarkable instrument, capable of registering the minutest shifts and quivers of internal energy with extraordinary precision and exactitude.
- We need to point out how disgraceful their actions are and how they stain the honor of a man who died for his country in combat without ranting, but with precision and exactitude.
- he writes with exactitude and precision

exactor

noun ɛɡˈzaktəɪɡˈzaktəɪɡˈzæktər

All it says is that you request my professional services as the exactor of your revenge - with the special introductory bonus of me giving you the ability to play that thing without being stoned by all in earshot.
Example sentencesExamples
- A missionary friend was recommended to be ‘a preacher of piety, not an exactor of tithes’, to guide people into good living rather than taking taxes for the benefit of the Church.

Origin

Late Middle English (as a verb): from Latin exact- 'completed, ascertained, enforced', from the verb exigere, from ex- 'thoroughly' + agere 'perform'. The adjective dates from the mid 16th century and reflects the Latin exactus 'precise'.

Rhymes

abreact, abstract, act, attract, bract, compact, contract, counteract, diffract, enact, extract, fact, humpbacked, impact, interact, matter-of-fact, pact, protract, redact, refract, retroact, subcontract, subtract, tact, tract, transact, unbacked, underact, untracked

Definition of exact in US English:

exact

adjectiveɪɡˈzæktiɡˈzakt

1Not approximated in any way; precise.
确切的
the exact details were still being worked out
确切的详情仍在研判中。
Example sentencesExamples
- Officials also need to establish an exact definition of which unmarried partners should be entitled to pension benefits.
- The photos above come to you from Germany, near the border with France, at approximately the exact center of Western Europe.
- He could not confirm exact details about the gases which did escape but said they were not thought to be highly toxic.
- In the second book he gave exact and approximate methods to construct regular polygons.
- And the thought is we can pull down the nebulous notion of beauty and make it exact and precise when we tie it to the notion of function; but in fact this doesn't work very well.
- They've also confirmed the exact details of their site in Waterford.
- Every move is exact, precise, has purpose, shows rather than alludes, directs rather than suggests, shapes rather than evokes.
- Recent advances in our understanding of Palaeozoic tectonics, and in the precise dating of tectonic events require exact definitions of terminology.
- This is because pension trustees have a lot more discretion on deciding the exact definition of a ‘dependant’ in this situation.
- Generally, however, the difference between the exact and approximate solutions is not large, and overall trends are maintained.
- As time progressed and more and more constraints and policies were put into force we became more and more aware of the need for exact and very precise entries in these documents.
- The team's remit has also been to establish the exact chronology of events and actions taken following the confirmation of the case on April 21.
- Instead of using exact results, we approximated the chop zone probabilities by bounding the number of indel events, and the indel lengths per event.
- Astrophysicists can search for shadows by applying Newton's method, a mathematical way to refine approximate solutions into exact ones.
- At an inquest into his death last November, a post-mortem examination failed to establish an exact cause of death but it was confirmed there were no suspicious injuries.
- You can also adjust three bars, like a graphic equaliser, controlling how recently the page was updated, how popular the site is and whether it is an exact or approximate word match.
- He gives precise details of the exact altitude of various well known stars at the moment of first contact.
- Again, these results are exact, not approximations.
- Both exact and approximate solutions to the problem have been developed.
- We are endeavouring to establish the exact details of what has happened.
Synonyms
definite, fixed, settled, decided, established, confirmed, agreed, clear-cut, concrete, hard and fast
1. 1.1 Accurate or correct in all details.
  准确的，精确的
  an exact replica, two feet tall, was constructed
  一个两英尺高的精确复制品被建造了起来。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is an exact replica of the fountain in Versailles, just twice as large, and with those measurements it is one of the largest free-standing fountains in the world.
  Dr Freeman found that the main facade was relatively intact, although a flank wall needed to be rebuilt, some surviving bricks being chemically analysed to enable exact replicas to be made.
  He has, apparently, perfected a procedure that can re-impregnate Jessie with an exact genetic replica of her son.
  The apartment was extremely close to being an exact replica of the Scott's.
  Carefully mocked up on City of York Council headed notepaper, the letter that landed on our desk is an exact replica of those sent out to local residents asking for comments on a new planning application.
  The member did not read out correctly either the exact quote of what the Minister said or what is written here on the Order Paper.
  And the oval office in this library is the exact replica.
  The Viking museum in Roskilde has recently completed an exact replica of an 11 th century Irish built longship which will soon set sail to Ireland.
  I felt like a monkey in a cage to be correctly exact.
  The Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963, but an exact replica has been constructed 200 metres away for visitors to see.
  A particular target is expected to be descendants of Scots living in the United States where an exact replica of Burns' birthplace has been built in a park in Atlanta, Georgia.
  Except for the school chaplain, who harped on about how Sunny was the exact replica of all the other students at the school, and so proud of the school motto… yeah right.
  The model, which is currently being built to a scale of 1 to 50, is an exact replica of the the Admiral's flagship, and will be completed in May.
  Alongside the Earl will be the Matthew of Bristol, an exact replica of the original ship captained by John Cabot more than 500 years ago that is believed to have made it to America before Columbus.
  The word ‘copy’ implies an exact replica in size and detail.
  The 1996 election was almost an exact replica of the 1992 one.
  The Legacy Lantern stands an impressive 2.5 metres high and is an exact replica of the Legacy symbol (a torch with a wreath of laurel).
  The PCA spokesman said the weapon used by Larkins, who was unemployed, was an 8mm blank-firing weapon that was an exact replica of a police Glock handgun.
  Although, there are no mixing flaws, one could always criticize it for track selection and the fact that you know this CD is an exact replica of the set he is repeating city after city.
  I have since purchased exact, working replicas of Jerry and Knuck, which sit around my house and do a great job of scaring my maid every single time she walks into the room.
  Synonyms
  precise, accurate, correct, faithful, close, true, veracious, literal, strict, unerring, faultless, errorless, error-free, perfect, impeccable
2. 1.2 (of a person) tending to be accurate and careful about minor details.
  （人）严谨的
  she was an exact, clever manager
  她是一个一丝不苟的、聪明的经理。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I am saying that I am not a member of your French culture, but I will not be a member of American culture, here; I am an exact entity, exact person.
  Synonyms
  careful, meticulous, painstaking, precise, punctilious, conscientious, rigorous, scrupulous, exacting
3. 1.3 (of a subject of study) permitting precise or absolute measurements as a basis for rigorously testable theories.
  （研究课题）严密的
  psychomedicine isn't an exact science yet
  心理医学还不是一门非常严密的科学。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But Mr Considine argued that tax forecasting was not an exact science and was subject to shifts in economic growth, which were difficult to predict.
  Share price valuation is not an exact science and is subject to assumptions that take into account many different parameters.
  I would like to say the following in addition: Lyndon LaRouche applies the method of the exact sciences, economics.
  The old stone quarry is becoming a scientific center; philosophy, theology, exact sciences and biomedical sciences will be studied here.
  We must stress that assessing the security level of a cipher system is not an exact science.
  How drugs react in a horse's system is not an exact science.

verbɪɡˈzæktiɡˈzakt

[with object]

1Demand and obtain (something, especially a payment) from someone.
强索；强要（某物，尤指付款）
tributes exacted from the Slavic peoples
向斯拉夫各民族强行索要来的贡品。
William's advisers exacted an oath of obedience from the clergy
威廉的顾问们强迫牧师发誓服从。
Example sentencesExamples
- However, his Fianna Fail cabinet colleagues exacted it as the price for passing his much-needed defamation bill.
- China's notoriously dangerous mining industry has exacted a terrible toll in the first four months of 2003.
- Demands for technical proficiency and joint capability have exacted a price on today's officers in the form of complex and extended career and professional military education demands.
- The judge had exacted a terrible sentence on the guilty prisoners in his annoyance with the Jury's verdict who had gone totally against his guidance during the summing up.
- The frenetic pace of modern life, the dominance of capital, hype, noise and speed is exacting a terrible price on the people of God struggling to be faithful.
- Physical safety and creature comforts exact a terrible price in that regard.
- I wonder if years of free aisle seats exact another sort of price: the ability to genuinely react and engage.
- The Wars of Napoleon had exacted a terrible price; total military and civilian deaths brought about by war numbered as high as four or five million.
- The associated fighting exacted a terrible price of more than 3.5 million deaths, mainly from starvation and disease, according to aid agency estimates; the worst death toll since the Second World War.
- Crucially the monarch's capacity to exact the obedience he commands is, however, immediately challenged.
- So maybe what he's saying is that if they fail to produce the ring or any information, he'll exact expectation damages.
- In a hierarchical conception of reality, the particular human being cannot defend his or her rights by demanding or exacting them independently of the whole.
- Recovery was permitted only in cases in which money was exacted under an unlawful demand by a public authority where the payment was made under a mistake of fact of under compulsion of some kind.
- The social pressures which forced pregnant teenagers and unwed mothers to relinquish their babies exacted an enormous price.
- God would have exacted the pledge he required; the sacrifice would have taken place in that the death sentence had been pronounced.
- The summer marked the end of the campaigning season and having exacted some sort of tribute, taken hostages, and agreed some kind of alliance, Caesar returned to Gaul.
- A number of armed dissidents were apparently accounted for, but it was the innocent civilian population upon whom a terrible toll was exacted.
- Land mines continue to exact a terrible toll on civilian populations around the world.
- In no case should an institution exact a price for these accommodations by demanding higher levels of productivity in exchange.
- The witch had exacted a terrible price from the mermaid - she would have legs, lovely legs, but she would never be quite like the humans around her.
Synonyms
demand, require, insist on, command, call for, impose, request, ask for, expect, look for
1. 1.1 Inflict (revenge) on someone.
  强行（报复）
  he exacts a cruel revenge against the winning candidate
  Example sentencesExamples
  As in Greek tragedy, the past exacts its revenges.
  They murdered all the members of Caligula's family, so there should be no one in whose name retribution might be exacted.
  The woman remains peaceful because, after ten years, vengeance has been exacted against her husband.
  To cartoon ‘The Chief’, as he was known by his worshippers, was definitely blasphemous and vengeance had to be exacted.
  Before you know it, they realize the errors of their ways, and the Richard character is being tortured and exacting misogynistic revenge.
  But, after getting treatment, he was unable to exact a more lasting revenge as he slammed his spot kick to the World Cup winner's right, allowing him to make an easy save.
  He escapes, reinvents himself as a count and starts to exact cold, calculated revenge.
  And, if it thinks it faces a terrorist threat now, you can only imagine what kind of retribution would be exacted.
  It is commonplace now to remark on the revenge exacted at Versailles.
  Arguably, to exact revenge or punishment by means of agricultural devastation was the essence of Greek warfare.
  His mind conjured the most amazing, most subtle and cruel plan to exact his revenge.
  Three years later the father of the murdered man turns up at a Jewish family wedding and exacts his own private revenge.
  Using as his model the ten plagues of the Pharaohs from the Old Testament, he exacts his cruel revenge on the nine medical people involved using rats, bats, locusts, and hail, among others.
  He never forgets any slight delivered upon him, and exacts revenge whenever and wherever possible.
  Now something I have only dreamed of happens - the son of that killer falls into my lap, and I can exact an even more acute form of revenge than I first expected.
  Never take a slight personally, just sit back and wait until you can exact your cruel verbal revenge.
  Her vicious treatment of him prompts the circus freaks to band together and exact their own terrible revenge.
  I, personally, look forward to then spending the rest of my life hunting them down, per narrative convention, and exacting elaborately plotted revenge.
  His whole life seems bent on exacting his own revenge on people.
  And now, with so many other lives being taken away so quickly, retribution must be exacted.
  Synonyms
  inflict, impose, deliver, administer, issue, apply

Origin

Late Middle English (as a verb): from Latin exact- ‘completed, ascertained, enforced’, from the verb exigere, from ex- ‘thoroughly’ + agere ‘perform’. The adjective dates from the mid 16th century and reflects the Latin exactus ‘precise’.

词汇	exact
释义	Definition of exact in English: exact adjective ɛɡˈzaktɪɡˈzaktɪɡˈzækt 1Not approximated in any way; precise. 确切的 the exact details were still being worked out 确切的详情仍在研判中。 Example sentencesExamples And the thought is we can pull down the nebulous notion of beauty and make it exact and precise when we tie it to the notion of function; but in fact this doesn't work very well. As time progressed and more and more constraints and policies were put into force we became more and more aware of the need for exact and very precise entries in these documents. Officials also need to establish an exact definition of which unmarried partners should be entitled to pension benefits. Recent advances in our understanding of Palaeozoic tectonics, and in the precise dating of tectonic events require exact definitions of terminology. The team's remit has also been to establish the exact chronology of events and actions taken following the confirmation of the case on April 21. Both exact and approximate solutions to the problem have been developed. Astrophysicists can search for shadows by applying Newton's method, a mathematical way to refine approximate solutions into exact ones. You can also adjust three bars, like a graphic equaliser, controlling how recently the page was updated, how popular the site is and whether it is an exact or approximate word match. At an inquest into his death last November, a post-mortem examination failed to establish an exact cause of death but it was confirmed there were no suspicious injuries. Instead of using exact results, we approximated the chop zone probabilities by bounding the number of indel events, and the indel lengths per event. Again, these results are exact, not approximations. We are endeavouring to establish the exact details of what has happened. This is because pension trustees have a lot more discretion on deciding the exact definition of a ‘dependant’ in this situation. Every move is exact, precise, has purpose, shows rather than alludes, directs rather than suggests, shapes rather than evokes. The photos above come to you from Germany, near the border with France, at approximately the exact center of Western Europe. Generally, however, the difference between the exact and approximate solutions is not large, and overall trends are maintained. In the second book he gave exact and approximate methods to construct regular polygons. They've also confirmed the exact details of their site in Waterford. He could not confirm exact details about the gases which did escape but said they were not thought to be highly toxic. He gives precise details of the exact altitude of various well known stars at the moment of first contact. Synonyms definite, fixed, settled, decided, established, confirmed, agreed, clear-cut, concrete, hard and fast 1.1 Accurate or correct in all details. 准确的，精确的 an exact replica, two feet tall, was constructed 一个两英尺高的精确复制品被建造了起来。 Example sentencesExamples He has, apparently, perfected a procedure that can re-impregnate Jessie with an exact genetic replica of her son. The word ‘copy’ implies an exact replica in size and detail. And the oval office in this library is the exact replica. The 1996 election was almost an exact replica of the 1992 one. The apartment was extremely close to being an exact replica of the Scott's. I felt like a monkey in a cage to be correctly exact. Alongside the Earl will be the Matthew of Bristol, an exact replica of the original ship captained by John Cabot more than 500 years ago that is believed to have made it to America before Columbus. Although, there are no mixing flaws, one could always criticize it for track selection and the fact that you know this CD is an exact replica of the set he is repeating city after city. Carefully mocked up on City of York Council headed notepaper, the letter that landed on our desk is an exact replica of those sent out to local residents asking for comments on a new planning application. A particular target is expected to be descendants of Scots living in the United States where an exact replica of Burns' birthplace has been built in a park in Atlanta, Georgia. Except for the school chaplain, who harped on about how Sunny was the exact replica of all the other students at the school, and so proud of the school motto… yeah right. It is an exact replica of the fountain in Versailles, just twice as large, and with those measurements it is one of the largest free-standing fountains in the world. The PCA spokesman said the weapon used by Larkins, who was unemployed, was an 8mm blank-firing weapon that was an exact replica of a police Glock handgun. The member did not read out correctly either the exact quote of what the Minister said or what is written here on the Order Paper. The model, which is currently being built to a scale of 1 to 50, is an exact replica of the the Admiral's flagship, and will be completed in May. The Legacy Lantern stands an impressive 2.5 metres high and is an exact replica of the Legacy symbol (a torch with a wreath of laurel). The Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963, but an exact replica has been constructed 200 metres away for visitors to see. Dr Freeman found that the main facade was relatively intact, although a flank wall needed to be rebuilt, some surviving bricks being chemically analysed to enable exact replicas to be made. I have since purchased exact, working replicas of Jerry and Knuck, which sit around my house and do a great job of scaring my maid every single time she walks into the room. The Viking museum in Roskilde has recently completed an exact replica of an 11 th century Irish built longship which will soon set sail to Ireland. Synonyms precise, accurate, correct, faithful, close, true, veracious, literal, strict, unerring, faultless, errorless, error-free, perfect, impeccable explicit, detailed, minute, meticulous, thorough, blow-by-blow British inch-perfect informal on the nail, on the mark, on the beam, on the button British informal spot on, bang on North American informal on the money 1.2 (of a person) accurate and careful about minor details. （人）严谨的 she was an exact, clever manager 她是一个一丝不苟的、聪明的经理。 Example sentencesExamples I am saying that I am not a member of your French culture, but I will not be a member of American culture, here; I am an exact entity, exact person. Synonyms careful, meticulous, painstaking, precise, punctilious, conscientious, rigorous, scrupulous, exacting methodical, systematic, well organized, ordered, orderly, controlled 1.3 (of a subject of study) permitting precise measurements as a basis for rigorously testable theories. （研究课题）严密的 psychomedicine isn't an exact science yet 心理医学还不是一门非常严密的科学。 Example sentencesExamples How drugs react in a horse's system is not an exact science. We must stress that assessing the security level of a cipher system is not an exact science. The old stone quarry is becoming a scientific center; philosophy, theology, exact sciences and biomedical sciences will be studied here. Share price valuation is not an exact science and is subject to assumptions that take into account many different parameters. I would like to say the following in addition: Lyndon LaRouche applies the method of the exact sciences, economics. But Mr Considine argued that tax forecasting was not an exact science and was subject to shifts in economic growth, which were difficult to predict. verb ɛɡˈzaktɪɡˈzaktɪɡˈzækt [with object] 1Demand and obtain (something) from someone. 强索；强要（某物，尤指付款） he exacted promises that another Watergate would never be allowed to happen Example sentencesExamples God would have exacted the pledge he required; the sacrifice would have taken place in that the death sentence had been pronounced. Physical safety and creature comforts exact a terrible price in that regard. In no case should an institution exact a price for these accommodations by demanding higher levels of productivity in exchange. China's notoriously dangerous mining industry has exacted a terrible toll in the first four months of 2003. The social pressures which forced pregnant teenagers and unwed mothers to relinquish their babies exacted an enormous price. However, his Fianna Fail cabinet colleagues exacted it as the price for passing his much-needed defamation bill. Recovery was permitted only in cases in which money was exacted under an unlawful demand by a public authority where the payment was made under a mistake of fact of under compulsion of some kind. The witch had exacted a terrible price from the mermaid - she would have legs, lovely legs, but she would never be quite like the humans around her. The summer marked the end of the campaigning season and having exacted some sort of tribute, taken hostages, and agreed some kind of alliance, Caesar returned to Gaul. A number of armed dissidents were apparently accounted for, but it was the innocent civilian population upon whom a terrible toll was exacted. The associated fighting exacted a terrible price of more than 3.5 million deaths, mainly from starvation and disease, according to aid agency estimates; the worst death toll since the Second World War. The frenetic pace of modern life, the dominance of capital, hype, noise and speed is exacting a terrible price on the people of God struggling to be faithful. The Wars of Napoleon had exacted a terrible price; total military and civilian deaths brought about by war numbered as high as four or five million. So maybe what he's saying is that if they fail to produce the ring or any information, he'll exact expectation damages. In a hierarchical conception of reality, the particular human being cannot defend his or her rights by demanding or exacting them independently of the whole. Demands for technical proficiency and joint capability have exacted a price on today's officers in the form of complex and extended career and professional military education demands. Land mines continue to exact a terrible toll on civilian populations around the world. The judge had exacted a terrible sentence on the guilty prisoners in his annoyance with the Jury's verdict who had gone totally against his guidance during the summing up. Crucially the monarch's capacity to exact the obedience he commands is, however, immediately challenged. I wonder if years of free aisle seats exact another sort of price: the ability to genuinely react and engage. Synonyms demand, require, insist on, command, call for, impose, request, ask for, expect, look for extract, compel, force, wring, wrest, squeeze, obtain archaic constrain 1.1 Inflict (revenge) on someone. 强行（报复） he exacts a cruel revenge against the winning candidate Example sentencesExamples But, after getting treatment, he was unable to exact a more lasting revenge as he slammed his spot kick to the World Cup winner's right, allowing him to make an easy save. To cartoon ‘The Chief’, as he was known by his worshippers, was definitely blasphemous and vengeance had to be exacted. Her vicious treatment of him prompts the circus freaks to band together and exact their own terrible revenge. I, personally, look forward to then spending the rest of my life hunting them down, per narrative convention, and exacting elaborately plotted revenge. The woman remains peaceful because, after ten years, vengeance has been exacted against her husband. Never take a slight personally, just sit back and wait until you can exact your cruel verbal revenge. As in Greek tragedy, the past exacts its revenges. Before you know it, they realize the errors of their ways, and the Richard character is being tortured and exacting misogynistic revenge. It is commonplace now to remark on the revenge exacted at Versailles. His whole life seems bent on exacting his own revenge on people. Now something I have only dreamed of happens - the son of that killer falls into my lap, and I can exact an even more acute form of revenge than I first expected. He never forgets any slight delivered upon him, and exacts revenge whenever and wherever possible. Arguably, to exact revenge or punishment by means of agricultural devastation was the essence of Greek warfare. They murdered all the members of Caligula's family, so there should be no one in whose name retribution might be exacted. He escapes, reinvents himself as a count and starts to exact cold, calculated revenge. And now, with so many other lives being taken away so quickly, retribution must be exacted. Using as his model the ten plagues of the Pharaohs from the Old Testament, he exacts his cruel revenge on the nine medical people involved using rats, bats, locusts, and hail, among others. His mind conjured the most amazing, most subtle and cruel plan to exact his revenge. Three years later the father of the murdered man turns up at a Jewish family wedding and exacts his own private revenge. And, if it thinks it faces a terrorist threat now, you can only imagine what kind of retribution would be exacted. Synonyms inflict, impose, deliver, administer, issue, apply Derivatives exactable adjective ɛɡˈzaktəb(ə)lɪɡˈzaktəb(ə)lɪɡˈzæktəb(ə)l exactitude noun ɪɡˈzaktɪtjuːdɛɡˈzaktɪtjuːdɪɡˈzæktəˌt(j)ud mass noun 1The quality of being precise or accurate. it is not possible to say with any scientific exactitude what a dream means 1.1 Care and attention to detail. Example sentencesExamples Luxuriant tone, neat and precise passage work, rhythmic exactitude, strict dynamic control and near-perfect balance were features that were ever-present not only here but throughout the entire programme. Her 58-year-old body has remained a remarkable instrument, capable of registering the minutest shifts and quivers of internal energy with extraordinary precision and exactitude. We need to point out how disgraceful their actions are and how they stain the honor of a man who died for his country in combat without ranting, but with precision and exactitude. he writes with exactitude and precision exactor noun ɛɡˈzaktəɪɡˈzaktəɪɡˈzæktər All it says is that you request my professional services as the exactor of your revenge - with the special introductory bonus of me giving you the ability to play that thing without being stoned by all in earshot. Example sentencesExamples A missionary friend was recommended to be ‘a preacher of piety, not an exactor of tithes’, to guide people into good living rather than taking taxes for the benefit of the Church. Origin Late Middle English (as a verb): from Latin exact- 'completed, ascertained, enforced', from the verb exigere, from ex- 'thoroughly' + agere 'perform'. The adjective dates from the mid 16th century and reflects the Latin exactus 'precise'. Rhymes abreact, abstract, act, attract, bract, compact, contract, counteract, diffract, enact, extract, fact, humpbacked, impact, interact, matter-of-fact, pact, protract, redact, refract, retroact, subcontract, subtract, tact, tract, transact, unbacked, underact, untracked Definition of exact in US English: exact adjectiveɪɡˈzæktiɡˈzakt 1Not approximated in any way; precise. 确切的 the exact details were still being worked out 确切的详情仍在研判中。 Example sentencesExamples Officials also need to establish an exact definition of which unmarried partners should be entitled to pension benefits. The photos above come to you from Germany, near the border with France, at approximately the exact center of Western Europe. He could not confirm exact details about the gases which did escape but said they were not thought to be highly toxic. In the second book he gave exact and approximate methods to construct regular polygons. And the thought is we can pull down the nebulous notion of beauty and make it exact and precise when we tie it to the notion of function; but in fact this doesn't work very well. They've also confirmed the exact details of their site in Waterford. Every move is exact, precise, has purpose, shows rather than alludes, directs rather than suggests, shapes rather than evokes. Recent advances in our understanding of Palaeozoic tectonics, and in the precise dating of tectonic events require exact definitions of terminology. This is because pension trustees have a lot more discretion on deciding the exact definition of a ‘dependant’ in this situation. Generally, however, the difference between the exact and approximate solutions is not large, and overall trends are maintained. As time progressed and more and more constraints and policies were put into force we became more and more aware of the need for exact and very precise entries in these documents. The team's remit has also been to establish the exact chronology of events and actions taken following the confirmation of the case on April 21. Instead of using exact results, we approximated the chop zone probabilities by bounding the number of indel events, and the indel lengths per event. Astrophysicists can search for shadows by applying Newton's method, a mathematical way to refine approximate solutions into exact ones. At an inquest into his death last November, a post-mortem examination failed to establish an exact cause of death but it was confirmed there were no suspicious injuries. You can also adjust three bars, like a graphic equaliser, controlling how recently the page was updated, how popular the site is and whether it is an exact or approximate word match. He gives precise details of the exact altitude of various well known stars at the moment of first contact. Again, these results are exact, not approximations. Both exact and approximate solutions to the problem have been developed. We are endeavouring to establish the exact details of what has happened. Synonyms definite, fixed, settled, decided, established, confirmed, agreed, clear-cut, concrete, hard and fast 1.1 Accurate or correct in all details. 准确的，精确的 an exact replica, two feet tall, was constructed 一个两英尺高的精确复制品被建造了起来。 Example sentencesExamples It is an exact replica of the fountain in Versailles, just twice as large, and with those measurements it is one of the largest free-standing fountains in the world. Dr Freeman found that the main facade was relatively intact, although a flank wall needed to be rebuilt, some surviving bricks being chemically analysed to enable exact replicas to be made. He has, apparently, perfected a procedure that can re-impregnate Jessie with an exact genetic replica of her son. The apartment was extremely close to being an exact replica of the Scott's. Carefully mocked up on City of York Council headed notepaper, the letter that landed on our desk is an exact replica of those sent out to local residents asking for comments on a new planning application. The member did not read out correctly either the exact quote of what the Minister said or what is written here on the Order Paper. And the oval office in this library is the exact replica. The Viking museum in Roskilde has recently completed an exact replica of an 11 th century Irish built longship which will soon set sail to Ireland. I felt like a monkey in a cage to be correctly exact. The Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963, but an exact replica has been constructed 200 metres away for visitors to see. A particular target is expected to be descendants of Scots living in the United States where an exact replica of Burns' birthplace has been built in a park in Atlanta, Georgia. Except for the school chaplain, who harped on about how Sunny was the exact replica of all the other students at the school, and so proud of the school motto… yeah right. The model, which is currently being built to a scale of 1 to 50, is an exact replica of the the Admiral's flagship, and will be completed in May. Alongside the Earl will be the Matthew of Bristol, an exact replica of the original ship captained by John Cabot more than 500 years ago that is believed to have made it to America before Columbus. The word ‘copy’ implies an exact replica in size and detail. The 1996 election was almost an exact replica of the 1992 one. The Legacy Lantern stands an impressive 2.5 metres high and is an exact replica of the Legacy symbol (a torch with a wreath of laurel). The PCA spokesman said the weapon used by Larkins, who was unemployed, was an 8mm blank-firing weapon that was an exact replica of a police Glock handgun. Although, there are no mixing flaws, one could always criticize it for track selection and the fact that you know this CD is an exact replica of the set he is repeating city after city. I have since purchased exact, working replicas of Jerry and Knuck, which sit around my house and do a great job of scaring my maid every single time she walks into the room. Synonyms precise, accurate, correct, faithful, close, true, veracious, literal, strict, unerring, faultless, errorless, error-free, perfect, impeccable 1.2 (of a person) tending to be accurate and careful about minor details. （人）严谨的 she was an exact, clever manager 她是一个一丝不苟的、聪明的经理。 Example sentencesExamples I am saying that I am not a member of your French culture, but I will not be a member of American culture, here; I am an exact entity, exact person. Synonyms careful, meticulous, painstaking, precise, punctilious, conscientious, rigorous, scrupulous, exacting 1.3 (of a subject of study) permitting precise or absolute measurements as a basis for rigorously testable theories. （研究课题）严密的 psychomedicine isn't an exact science yet 心理医学还不是一门非常严密的科学。 Example sentencesExamples But Mr Considine argued that tax forecasting was not an exact science and was subject to shifts in economic growth, which were difficult to predict. Share price valuation is not an exact science and is subject to assumptions that take into account many different parameters. I would like to say the following in addition: Lyndon LaRouche applies the method of the exact sciences, economics. The old stone quarry is becoming a scientific center; philosophy, theology, exact sciences and biomedical sciences will be studied here. We must stress that assessing the security level of a cipher system is not an exact science. How drugs react in a horse's system is not an exact science. verbɪɡˈzæktiɡˈzakt [with object] 1Demand and obtain (something, especially a payment) from someone. 强索；强要（某物，尤指付款） tributes exacted from the Slavic peoples 向斯拉夫各民族强行索要来的贡品。 William's advisers exacted an oath of obedience from the clergy 威廉的顾问们强迫牧师发誓服从。 Example sentencesExamples However, his Fianna Fail cabinet colleagues exacted it as the price for passing his much-needed defamation bill. China's notoriously dangerous mining industry has exacted a terrible toll in the first four months of 2003. Demands for technical proficiency and joint capability have exacted a price on today's officers in the form of complex and extended career and professional military education demands. The judge had exacted a terrible sentence on the guilty prisoners in his annoyance with the Jury's verdict who had gone totally against his guidance during the summing up. The frenetic pace of modern life, the dominance of capital, hype, noise and speed is exacting a terrible price on the people of God struggling to be faithful. Physical safety and creature comforts exact a terrible price in that regard. I wonder if years of free aisle seats exact another sort of price: the ability to genuinely react and engage. The Wars of Napoleon had exacted a terrible price; total military and civilian deaths brought about by war numbered as high as four or five million. The associated fighting exacted a terrible price of more than 3.5 million deaths, mainly from starvation and disease, according to aid agency estimates; the worst death toll since the Second World War. Crucially the monarch's capacity to exact the obedience he commands is, however, immediately challenged. So maybe what he's saying is that if they fail to produce the ring or any information, he'll exact expectation damages. In a hierarchical conception of reality, the particular human being cannot defend his or her rights by demanding or exacting them independently of the whole. Recovery was permitted only in cases in which money was exacted under an unlawful demand by a public authority where the payment was made under a mistake of fact of under compulsion of some kind. The social pressures which forced pregnant teenagers and unwed mothers to relinquish their babies exacted an enormous price. God would have exacted the pledge he required; the sacrifice would have taken place in that the death sentence had been pronounced. The summer marked the end of the campaigning season and having exacted some sort of tribute, taken hostages, and agreed some kind of alliance, Caesar returned to Gaul. A number of armed dissidents were apparently accounted for, but it was the innocent civilian population upon whom a terrible toll was exacted. Land mines continue to exact a terrible toll on civilian populations around the world. In no case should an institution exact a price for these accommodations by demanding higher levels of productivity in exchange. The witch had exacted a terrible price from the mermaid - she would have legs, lovely legs, but she would never be quite like the humans around her. Synonyms demand, require, insist on, command, call for, impose, request, ask for, expect, look for 1.1 Inflict (revenge) on someone. 强行（报复） he exacts a cruel revenge against the winning candidate Example sentencesExamples As in Greek tragedy, the past exacts its revenges. They murdered all the members of Caligula's family, so there should be no one in whose name retribution might be exacted. The woman remains peaceful because, after ten years, vengeance has been exacted against her husband. To cartoon ‘The Chief’, as he was known by his worshippers, was definitely blasphemous and vengeance had to be exacted. Before you know it, they realize the errors of their ways, and the Richard character is being tortured and exacting misogynistic revenge. But, after getting treatment, he was unable to exact a more lasting revenge as he slammed his spot kick to the World Cup winner's right, allowing him to make an easy save. He escapes, reinvents himself as a count and starts to exact cold, calculated revenge. And, if it thinks it faces a terrorist threat now, you can only imagine what kind of retribution would be exacted. It is commonplace now to remark on the revenge exacted at Versailles. Arguably, to exact revenge or punishment by means of agricultural devastation was the essence of Greek warfare. His mind conjured the most amazing, most subtle and cruel plan to exact his revenge. Three years later the father of the murdered man turns up at a Jewish family wedding and exacts his own private revenge. Using as his model the ten plagues of the Pharaohs from the Old Testament, he exacts his cruel revenge on the nine medical people involved using rats, bats, locusts, and hail, among others. He never forgets any slight delivered upon him, and exacts revenge whenever and wherever possible. Now something I have only dreamed of happens - the son of that killer falls into my lap, and I can exact an even more acute form of revenge than I first expected. Never take a slight personally, just sit back and wait until you can exact your cruel verbal revenge. Her vicious treatment of him prompts the circus freaks to band together and exact their own terrible revenge. I, personally, look forward to then spending the rest of my life hunting them down, per narrative convention, and exacting elaborately plotted revenge. His whole life seems bent on exacting his own revenge on people. And now, with so many other lives being taken away so quickly, retribution must be exacted. Synonyms inflict, impose, deliver, administer, issue, apply Origin Late Middle English (as a verb): from Latin exact- ‘completed, ascertained, enforced’, from the verb exigere, from ex- ‘thoroughly’ + agere ‘perform’. The adjective dates from the mid 16th century and reflects the Latin exactus ‘precise’.
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