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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

  • (..) Quit fuckin' around and give her the shot. While I'm doin' this... you take off her shirt and find her heart. - VINCENT: It's got to be exact? - LANCE: Yeah, exact. A shot in the heart, so I guess it's gotta be exact. I don't know exactly where her heart is. I think it's here. (..)
    1994 Pulp Fiction