Word Finder - exact

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To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.

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to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone

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To make desirable or necessary.

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To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.

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to exact revenge on someone

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Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.

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He paid the exact debt.

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Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.

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In my doings I was exact.

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Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

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(of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.

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Exactly

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She's wearing the exact same sweater as I am!

I didn't have an exact date.

Medicine isn't an exact science.

We need an exact location too, within fifty or a hundred feet.

Her cell phone rang at the exact time she was certain that her head would burst.

The break-in was only hours old and we knew the exact location from Howie's first visit.

His exact words weren't important – especially because they weren't true.

But the exact period of transition is not clearly marked.

The exact size of the city is not known, but it probably extended as far as the present north wall of Jerusalem and included the northern part of the western hill.

One week new, to be exact.

The fur was the exact color of Elisabeth's hair in his dream.

Because of its reliability, agriculture will become more like an exact science.

Gabriel knew Darkyn well enough to know the demon lord would exact no small fee for these favors.

One of last year's wethers, to be exact.

The exact position of the native states of Bukhara and Khiva, which were later occupied by the Soviet Government, remained obscure.

He knows what settings control each but it's far from exact.

We not only lacked an exact time, but the in the turmoil of Martha's delivery, Betsy didn't spot the announcement in her usual timely manner.

Dean just smiled, wondering how Ginger and Joseph would know where brother and sister-in-law were if they themselves hadn't lied like the proverbial rug and done the exact same thing as the pair they were accusing.

He knew there wasn't a straight man alive who wouldn't have that exact reaction to her.

One end of each pipe is plain, so that it may be cut to any desired length; pipes with shaped ends obviously must be obtained in the exact lengths required.

In 1526 he was sent out in command of an expedition fitted out for the purpose of determining by astronomical observations the exact line of demarcation, under the treaty of Tordesillas, between the colonizing spheres of Spain and Portugal, and of conveying settlers to the Moluccas.

The former would be an exact submultiple of the 30-day month, but the exact relation of seven days to the month is not very clear.

The multitude of species and the many intermediate forms render their exact limitation difficult, but those presenting sufficiently marked characters to justify specific rank probably approach 300 in number.

As a military commander Cromwell was as prompt as Gustavus, as ardent as Conde, as exact as Turenne.

The exact plan of the whole is obscure, but the apartments evidently varied in size from mere closets to extensive courts.

He had aristocratic privileges and responsibilities, the right to exact retaliation for corporal injuries, and liability to heavier punishment for crimes and misdemeanours, higher fees and fines to pay.

With the judges were associated a body of elders, who shared in the decision, but whose exact function is not yet clear.

At the receiving station electrical mechanisms record the signals once more as perforations in a paper strip forming an exact replica of the transmitting tape.

These considerations also indicate what a difficult matter it is to find the exact rate of working against the resistances, because of the difficulty of securing conditions which eliminate the effect both of the gradient and of acceleration.

The exact period of the beginning of Anne's relations with Henry is not known.

Soon after their return Anne was found to be pregnant, and in consequence Henry married her about the 25th of January 15333 (the exact date is unknown), their union not being made public till the following Easter.

He was a diligent seeker after the truth, and was perfectly sincere when he informed a critic of the exact number of "truths" he had discovered, and when he remarked to one of his pupils a few days before his death, "Rest assured that what I have written in my book is the truth."

For history, applied mathematics - for anything, in fact, outside the exact sciences - he felt something approaching to contempt.

Diptera are divided into some sixty families, the exact classification of which has not yet been finally settled.

It is to these two investigators and their pupils that most of our exact thermochemical data are due.

In dealing, therefore, with dilute solutions, it is only necessary to state that the solutions are dilute, the exact degree of dilution being unimportant.

The exact nature and degree of its self-government is not clear.

The ideas of the quantitative aspects of phenomena are exact representations of these aspects or quantitative impressions; consequently, whatever is found true by consideration of the ideas may be asserted regarding the real impressions.

It is an experimental or observational science, founded on primary or immediate judgments (in his phraseology, perceptions), of relation between facts of intuition; its conclusions are hypothetical only in so far as they do not imply the existence at the moment of corresponding real experience; and its propositions have no exact truth.

Whatever may have been the exact view taken by the common law, the offence was made statutory by an act of 1803, making the attempt to cause the miscarriage of a woman, not being, or not being proved, to be quick with child, a felony, punishable with fine, imprisonment, whipping or transportation for any term not exceeding fourteen years.

The second methodology error that futurists often commit is the exact opposite of the first.

To the former he owes his appreciation of exact investigation and a complete knowledge of the aims of science, to the latter an equal admiration for the great circle of ideas which had been diffused by the teaching of Fichte, Schelling and Hegel.

The true method of science which he possessed forced him to condemn as useless the entire form which Schelling's and Hegel's expositions had adopted, especially the dialectic method of the latter, whilst his love of art and beauty, and his appreciation of moral purposes, revealed to him the existence of a transphenomenal world of values into which no exact science could penetrate.

Language has crystallized them into certain definite notions and expressions, without which we cannot proceed a single step, but which we have accepted without knowing their exact meaning, much less their origin.

Like the college buildings, they are almost an exact copy of those of New College, mutatis mutandis.

The number of thunderstorm days is probably a less exact measure of the relative intensity of thunderstorms than statistics as to the number of persons killed annually by lightning per million of the population.

In the case of the original Repsold plan without clockwork the description is not quite exact, because both the process of following the object and correcting the aim are simultaneously performed; whilst, if the clockwork runs uniformly and the friction-disk is set to the proper distance from the apex of the cone, the star will appear almost perfectly at rest, and the observer has only to apply delicate corrections by differential gear - a condition which is exactly analogous to that of training a modern gun-sight upon a fixed object.

From it the exact time is conveyed each day at one o'clock by electric signal to the chief towns throughout the country; British and the majority of foreign geographers reckon longitude from its meridian.

The now naturalized word "sheikhs" would be the exact rendering.

These officials, at the command of the senate, consulted the Sibylline books in order to discover, not exact predictions of definite future events, but the religious observances necessary to avert extraordinary calamities (pestilence, earthquake) and to expiate prodigies in cases where the national deities were unable, or unwilling, to help. Only the interpretation of the oracle which was considered suitable to the emergency was made known to the public, not the oracle itself.

The exact position of the Jebusite city is unknown; some authorities locate it on the western hill, now known as Zion; some on the eastern hill, afterwards occupied by the Temple and the city of David; while others consider it was a double settlement, one part being on the western, and the, other on the eastern hill, separated from one another by the Tyropoeon valley.