(a.) Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.
(a.) Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.
(a.) Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
(a.) To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.
(v. i.) To practice exaction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile Bradley Beal has developed into a dangerous second option and complementary sidekick in exactly the same way that Dion Waiters hasn't for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
(2) Furthermore, the backing away from any specific yield targets is exactly the lack of clarity that the FX market will not like."
(3) If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.” The sudden release follows weeks of visual clues left on the Radiohead frontman’s Twitter and Tumblr.
(4) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
(5) Hamilton said it was uncanny to find themselves in another desperate emergency situation almost exactly one year on.
(6) He missed the start of the season while rehabbing from last season's ankle injury, played exactly six games with the Los Angeles Lakers before getting hurt again and even if he's healthy he may still sit the game out .
(7) Johnson said the move would save businesses £350m from not having to meet the more exacting standards, which will now only have to be met by buses.
(8) These experiments represent the first occasion that the sequence specificity of a DNA damaging agent, which causes only double-strand breaks, has been determined to the exact base-pair in intact cells.
(9) The structural region contains serines, threonines, and cysteines at exactly the positions required to give mature nisin by a series of post-translational modifications involving dehydration of serines and threonines to dehydro forms, and cross-linking with cysteine residues.
(10) We propose that exact definitions must be given for the auxiliary enzymes in the recommendations of standard determinations for enzyme activities.
(11) Early diagnosis and exact resuscitation are the two most important aspects of a plan of treatment which anticipates the need for early surgery.
(12) But now, that's exactly what he tried to do … and it didn't work," he said.
(13) Concentrations of DLIS were detectable in significantly more (58.3%) of the 12 CHF patients (group A) who were not receiving digoxin than in the 22 normal volunteers tested (13.6%) (P less than 0.05 by both chi-square and Fisher's exact test).
(14) One of them got a gold medal in medicine, for being top of the year, but they dropped out for exactly these reasons.” These are not alarmist stories being spread by campaigners.
(15) But she has struggled – quite awkwardly – to articulate her evolution on same-sex marriage, and has left environmental activists wondering what her exact energy policy is.
(16) The surgeon must have an exact idea of this canal before undertaking operation for plastics of the hernial defect.
(17) The exact timing of the introduction of the glycopeptide antibiotics teicoplanin and vancomycin in the management of the febrile neutropenic patient continues to be controversial.
(18) While some might deride the deliberate mainstream branding and design, saying it panders to convention, this is exactly what Hannah feels her community needs.
(19) The predicted yeast enzyme contains at least four potential membrane-spanning regions and several shorter hydrophobic regions that align exactly with similar sequences in the rat liver protein.
(20) If, for the PWC 170 will be utilized, two steps with heart-rates of greater than 140 on the lower and 160 to 170 on the higher step, the PWC 170 seems to be exactly sufficient for estimating the maximal physical working capacity for routine testing of healthy young people.
Punctual
Definition:
(a.) Consisting in a point; limited to a point; unextended.
(a.) Observant of nice points; punctilious; precise.
(a.) Appearing or done at, or adhering exactly to, a regular or an appointed time; precise; prompt; as, a punctual man; a punctual payment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The punctual verify of vaccinal covering rate in a little Sanitary District in the Province of Treviso points out values higher than 90%.
(2) Beside morphologic studies the amounts of silver or chromium can be determined semiquantitatively by the intensity of the specific X-radiate from "sum up-analysis" out of punctual areas.
(3) Based upon many years of experience with specific reflexotherapy and conventional stimulation therapy for treatment of pain we started a clinical study in migraine applying the punctual transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (PuTENS) performed with self-made pocket electrostimulators (TRG I-III).
(4) I will support my contention by examining: (1) Sicilian-Canadian conceptions of punctuality; and, (2) the communicative dimension of the pain experience.
(5) It is being dubbed Britain's least punctual plane – a service run (somewhat inappropriately) by Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in central and eastern Europe.
(6) The elaboration performed discriminates between those stations constantly polluted and the punctual pollution phenomena that seldom affect more than one station.
(7) I want to see prisoners motivated to engage in their own learning and governors with the right tools to be more demanding and creative about the education provided in the prisons they run.” Coates recently carried out a review of teaching standards for the Department for Education and her recommended diet of punctuality, respect and constant exams has been credited with turning around Burlington Danes academy in White City in west London, which lies in the shadow of Wormwood Scrubs prison.
(8) A device for measuring hardness has been developed which allows an almost punctual evaluation of the mechanic value of bone.
(9) The method uses only codon usage tables and takes into account the length of sequences, and preserves the information contained in each codon by a punctual index.
(10) It missed its targets on financial efficiency, asset stewardship and, crucially, both freight and passenger train punctuality.
(11) They don't have the strength of character … Instead they show submissiveness, spinelessness, lack of punctuality, and many other factors which prevent them from becoming political activists."
(12) The laser beam is a punctual source of thermal energy which can be used to vaporize human atheroma.
(13) McNulty defended the achievements of privatisation, saying that punctuality and safety standards were now at impressive levels.
(14) The general physical properties of living systems, considered as open systems being far from equilibrium, are listed and simple non-linear mathematical models describing gradual and punctual speciation are suggested.
(15) Among the numerous musculo-cutaneous flaps, the lower trapezius island appears an interesting procedure for punctual indications.
(16) The deflagellated enterobacteria are, therefore, immobilized, and multiply, forming small punctual colonies, of 0.5-1 mm phi, whereas the vibrios tolerating FDF develop and at the same time move in the liquid agar, mass, forming large colonies, of 8-14 mm phi.
(17) London Overground has become one of the most popular and punctual railways anywhere in the country.
(18) BBC staffers not already familiar with their new boss may also like to know that he is a stickler for punctuality.
(19) It's a really strict environment, strict on punctuality, on socialising.
(20) Then ordinary passengers can continue to benefit from clean and punctual trains.