ADJECTIVE | all | exact | marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact |
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all | exact, accurate, precise | (of ideas, images, representations / representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth | |
VERB | communication | exact, demand | claim as due or just |
communication | exact, claim, take | take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs |
Sounds | ihgzae'kt | |
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Rhymes | abstract ... whacked: 41 rhymes with aekt... |
Meaning | marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact. | |
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Examples |
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Narrower | direct, verbatim | In precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker |
literal | Without interpretation or embellishment | |
mathematical | Characterized by the exactness or precision of mathematics | |
perfect | precisely accurate or exact | |
photographic | representing people or nature with the exactness and fidelity of a photograph | |
rigorous, strict | rigidly accurate | |
See also | accurate | conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy |
literal | Limited to the explicit meaning / meaning of a word or text | |
perfect | complete of its kind and without defect / defect / defect / defect or blemish | |
precise | sharply exact or accurate or delimited | |
Opposite | inexact | not exact |
Spanish | exacto | |
Catalan | exacte | |
Nouns | exactness | the quality of being exact / exact |
Adverbs | exactly | indicating exactness or preciseness |
Meaning | (of ideas, images, representations / representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct. | |
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Synonyms | accurate, precise | |
Broader | correct, right | Free from error |
Spanish | clavado, exacta, exacto, perfecto, precisa, preciso | |
Catalan | clavat, exacte, perfecte, precís | |
Nouns | exactness | the quality of being exact / exact |
Adverbs | precisely, exactly | in a precise manner |
Meaning | claim as due or just. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
Model | The banks exact the check | |
Synonym | demand | |
Narrower | call, call in | demand payment of (a loan) |
command | demand as one's due | |
Broader | claim | ask for legally or make a legal claim / claim to, as of debts, for example |
Spanish | demandar, exigir, reclamar | |
Catalan | exigir | |
Nouns | exaction | act of demanding or levying by force or authority |
Meaning | Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
Synonyms | claim, take | |
Broader | necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand | require as useful, just, or proper |
Similar to | necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand | require as useful, just, or proper |
Spanish | cobrarse |
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