Exact meaning of a word

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzækt/
• Rhymes: -ækt

Adjective[edit]

exact (comparative exacter or more exact, superlative exactest or most exact)

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

   The clock keeps exact time.

   He paid the exact debt.

   an exact copy of a letter

   exact accounts

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

   a man exact in observing an appointment

   In my doings I was exact.

   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

     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 […]

3. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     An exact command,
     Larded with many several sorts of reason.

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

Synonyms[edit]

• (precisely agreeing): perfect, true, correct, precise
• (precisely or definitely conceived or stated): strict
• spot on

Antonyms[edit]

• (precisely agreeing): inexact, imprecise, approximate
• (precisely or definitely conceived or stated): loose

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

exact (third-person singular simple present exacts, present participle exacting, simple past and past participle exacted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.

   to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone

   • He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.

   • 2018, Edo Konrad, «Living in the constant shadow of settler violence», +972 Magazine:

     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.

   • 2020 September 19, statement of Clarence Thomas on the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg[1]:

     She was a superb judge who gave her best and exacted the best from each of us, whether in agreement or disagreement.

   • 2020, Kristine Henriksen Garroway, John W. Martens, Children and Methods (page 139)

     […] a generic, strikingly universal, deity, “ha-elohim,” who tests, who exacts and extracts, and who is the object of fear […]

2. (transitive) To make desirable or necessary.
   • 1632, Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour

     My designs exact me in another place.

3. (transitive) To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.

   to exact revenge on someone

Usage notes[edit]

• Often used with the preposition from or on.

Derived terms[edit]

• exactable
• exacter
• exacting
• exactor

Translations[edit]

Adverb[edit]

exact (comparative more exact, superlative most exact)

1. exactly

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

Synonyms[edit]

• (error-free manner): accurately, just, precisely; see also Thesaurus:exactly

Further reading[edit]

• exact in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “exact”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• exact at OneLook Dictionary Search

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French exact, from Middle French exact, from Latin exāctus.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ɛkˈsɑkt/
• Hyphenation: exact
• Rhymes: -ɑkt

Adjective[edit]

exact (comparative exacter, superlative exactst)

1. exact, precise

Inflection[edit]

Inflection of exact
uninflected	exact
inflected	exacte
comparative	exacter
	positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial	exact	exacter	het exactst het exactste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	exacte	exactere	exactste
n. sing.	exact	exacter	exactste
plural	exacte	exactere	exactste
definite	exacte	exactere	exactste
partitive	exacts	exacters	—

Derived terms[edit]

• exactheid

Descendants[edit]

• Afrikaans: eksak

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin exāctus.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zakt/, (old-fashioned) /ɛɡ.za/

Adjective[edit]

exact (feminine exacte, masculine plural exacts, feminine plural exactes)

1. exact; precise

Derived terms[edit]

• exactement
• science exacte

Further reading[edit]

• “exact”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French exact.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /eɡˈzakt/

Adjective[edit]

exact m or n (feminine singular exactă, masculine plural exacți, feminine and neuter plural exacte)

1. exact, precise

Declension[edit]

Adverb[edit]

exact

1. exactly, precisely

See also[edit]

• precis

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Полезное

точный, строгий, аккуратный, взыскать, взыскивать, вымогать

прилагательное ↓

глагол ↓

Словосочетания

Примеры с переводом

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Возможные однокоренные слова

exacting  — требовательный, взыскательный, суровый, напряженный, придирчивый, изнуряющий
exaction  — вымогательство, домогательство, настоятельное требование, чрезмерный налог
exactly  — точно, именно, ровно, как раз, точь-в-точь, совершенно верно
exactness  — точность, аккуратность, тщательность
exactor  — вымогатель
inexact  — неточный

Формы слова

verb
I/you/we/they: exact
he/she/it: exacts
ing ф. (present participle): exacting
2-я ф. (past tense): exacted
3-я ф. (past participle): exacted

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‘exact‘ also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

exact: translation

Synonyms and related words:

accurate, appreciative, ask, ask for, assess, attentive, badger, be hurting for, be indicated, blackmail, brook no denial, burden with, call for, careful, challenge, charge, charge for, claim, clamor for, close, compel, conscientious, conscionable, constant, consummate, correct, critical, cry for, cry out for, delicate, demand, demanding, detailed, dictate, differential, direct, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, enforce, enjoin, even, exacting, exigent, express, exquisite, extort, extract, faithful, fasten upon, fastidious, faultless, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, force from, freight with, full, fussy, gouge, have occasion for, heedful, identical, impose, impose on, impose upon, indent, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, inflict on, inflict upon, insist on, insist upon, issue an ultimatum, lay, lay on, leave no option, levy, levy blackmail, literal, make a demand, make dutiable, mathematical, methodical, meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, minute, narrow, necessitate, need, nice, oblige, order, order up, orderly, painstaking, particular, perfect, picayune, pinch, pinpoint, place, place an order, precious, precise, precisian, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic, prerequire, pro rata, proper, prorate, pry loose from, punctilious, punctual, puristic, put, put down, put in requisition, put on, put upon, refined, religious, religiously exact, rend, rend from, require, requisition, right, rigid, rigorous, rip, rip from, saddle with, scientific, scientifically exact, screw, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, selfsame, sensitive, set, severe, shake, shake down, snatch from, special, specific, square, squeeze, stick for, strict, subject to, subtle, tactful, take doing, take no denial, task, tax, tear from, thorough, tithe, TRUE, undeviating, unerring, very, want, want doing, warn, weight down with, wrench, wrench from, wrest, wring, wring from, yoke with

What do we mean by exact?

Strictly and completely in accord with fact; not deviating from truth or reality. adjective

Characterized by accurate measurements or inferences with small margins of error; not approximate. adjective

Characterized by strict adherence to standards or rules. adjective

To force the payment or yielding of; extort. transitive verb

To inflict (vengeance or punishment, for example). transitive verb

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.

In English law, to call (a party) in court to answer.

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.

To practice exaction. intransitive verb

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. transitive verb

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

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

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

To make desirable or necessary.

To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.

Used as a reply to confirm or agree with what has just been said. indicates mutual agreement with a point of conversation.
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