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

  • (..) The Triangle Of Light. But it is no bedtime story. The triangle was forged from metal found in the crater of a meteor that had fallen to earth at the exact moment of the previous alignment of the nine planets. The People of the Light built a great city in this crater (..)
    2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
  • (..) She loved you so much. Mummy! I wish I could remember her, too. - I still have you, Daddy. - Yes, you do. The exact alignment of the planets necessary to activate the triangle only occurs once every years. But that will prove to be just long enough for little Lara Croft to grow up... (..)
    2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider