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

  • (..) By that point... ...they're pretty lethal. But they don't receive any special treatment. In fact, they're staying at the exact same apartment as you do. And I don't think left them out for dessert and you can. So how good all that? Obviously, they're pretty good. They won in almost (..)
    2012 The Hunger Games