/ɪɡˈzækt/
Translation
Completely correct in every small detail.
Word origin
From Latin exactus, meaning weighed or measured carefully, from exigere, to weigh out.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- exactus
Examples
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"Exact" asks for the time to the minute, not about.
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"The exact money" means not a penny more or less.
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"Exact words" means the very words she used.
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(1)Grammar articles
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Hedging and vague language in English: sort of, a bit, -ish, stuff and or so
Prepositions in English: place, time and movement explained
Present continuous tense: form, spelling and uses
Quantifiers in English: some, any, much, many and more
Reported speech in English: backshift, questions and commands
Word formation in English: how suffixes build word families and give away the part of speech
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