exact

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1. exact - Adjective

2. exact - Verb

3. exact - Adverb

4. exact - Adjective Satellite

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Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.

Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.

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; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.

To practice exaction.

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This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good ... for nothing can so make a person an imitator of Christ as caring for neighbors. John Chrysostom

Everything that is exact is short. Joseph Joubert

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. Edmund Burke

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it's the exact opposite! Paul Dirac

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. Edward Hopper

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