exact

Definition

  • verb: to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain
  • verb: to demand and get (something, such as payment or revenge) especially by using force or threats
  • adjective: fully and completely correct or accurate
  • adjective: exhibiting or marked by strict, particular, and complete accordance with fact or a standard
  • used in phrases like 'exact a terrible toll' and 'exact a high/heavy price' to say that something has caused a lot of suffering, loss, etc.
  • synonyms: true, correct, precise

Examples

  • I realize now that I have tried to make my work the 'exact opposite' of my father's. [=to make my work as different as possible from my father's]

  • He used to be romantic, but now he's the 'exact opposite'. [=now he is not at all romantic]

  • He came a long way—from Nome, Alaska, 'to be exact'—to attend the wedding.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) A magic unlike any other. It feeds on life itself. It pollutes the user, twisting everything it touches. It promises great power but it exacts a terrible price. There is no place for the fel in Azeroth. Hey. Go home, you. - Medivh. (..)
    2016 Warcraft
  • (..) - Yes. It's just I have to make this decision by tomorrow. Yeah. You know, a while back, we had a guy in here in almost the exact same situation, "take the money or keep the company." What happened? Well, a couple months later he was brought into the ER with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. (..)
    2014 TvShow: Silicon Valley Title: Minimum Viable Product Season: 1 Episode 1
  • (..) -Take care. -Thanks. -Well.... -Yeah. Fourth task: construction. We need to build an exact replica of the Bellagio vault. -To practice? -Something like that. Fifth task: intelligence. We need those codes, Linus... (..)
    2001 Ocean's Eleven