(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.
Truth
Definition:
(n.) The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.
(n.) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.
(n.) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.
(n.) That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.
(n.) A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.
(n.) Righteousness; true religion.
(v. t.) To assert as true; to declare.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike Milo, he appears to be – to some extent – convinced of the truth of what he’s saying.
(2) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(3) It is important for this commission to get to the truth of what happened and it's able to carry on without interference and disruption.
(4) Solzhenitsyn was acknowledged as a "truth-teller" and a witness to the cruelties of Stalinism of unusual power and eloquence.
(5) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(6) The truth is that it doesn’t depend on me.” £17.5m is the amount it will take to prise him away from the Stadio Olimpico.
(7) It is a truth universally acknowledged that it takes fewer votes to elect a Labour than a Conservative government.
(8) The truth is, some of these attacks would be leveled against any Republican presidential contender.
(9) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
(10) Diego Garcia guards its secrets even as the truth on CIA torture emerges Read more The long-awaited decision – expected to cause enormous disappointment – follows more than 40 years of campaigning, court cases and calls for the UK to right a wrong committed by Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
(11) We demand to know the truth.” Earlier, a small group of relatives were removed by police after protesting outside the Malaysian embassy in Beijing.
(12) He is an academy product and truthfully we are, and me above all, happy to have him with us.
(13) But the truth is that too often, it’s nearly impossible to get the most basic facts about the food we buy for our families.” If the alterations are adopted, drinks companies, for example, would no longer be able to treat a 20oz bottle of soda as containing 2.5 servings of 8oz each for the purpose of labelling estimated calorie levels.
(14) I still think that it’s good we’re conducting air strikes – the truth is that we probably need more” in Iraq, Rubio said Wednesday.
(15) But, truth be told, Putin is also at a loss when he gets jeered.
(16) 9.11pm GMT Sen Barbara Mikulski of Maryland asks Brennan if she can count on him to "speak truth to power."
(17) And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God.
(18) It’s impossible to automate fully the process of separating truth from falsehood, and it’s dubious to cede such control to for-profit media giants.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
(20) Long before anyone had heard of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, she planned to make a low-budget documentary about oil and climate change.