exaction

exact /Çg'zækt/ adj

၁။ တိကျသော။ တစ်ထပ်တည်းကျသော။ an exact copy/replica of the painting ❍ the exact time/date/figure/location/size ❍ What were his exact words? ❍ They elected a leader who was almost the exact opposite of the previous one. ❍ He's in his mid-fifties — well, fifty-six to be exact.
၂။ (က) အလွန်တိကျသော။ စေ့စပ်သေချာသော။ She's a very exact person.
(ခ) (သိပ္ပံ သဘောအရ) ပုံသေကားကျ။ Bringing up children is not an exact science, you know!
v ~ sth (from sb) အတင်းတောင်းဆိုသည်။ အရယူသည်။ ညှစ်ယူသည်။ The kidnappers exacted a ransom of £50,000 from the family. ❍ He exacted a terrible revenge for their treatment of him.
❏ exacting adj အမှားမခံသော။ ကွက်တိဖြစ်သော။ products designed to meet the exacting standards of today's international market-place ❍ His work schedule is exacting. exaction /Çg'zækʃn/ n (fml ) [U, C]
❏ exactitude /Çg'zæktÇtju:d; US -tu:d/ n [U] (fml ) တိကျမှန်ကန်မှု။ scholarly exactitude.
❏ exactly adv
၁။ တိတိ။ အံကိုက်။ အသေအချာ။
That's exactly what I expected. ❍ I know exactly how she felt. ❍ You've arrived at exactly the right moment. ❍ It happened almost exactly a year ago. ❍ His words had exactly the opposite effect.
၂။ အတိအကျ။ Your answer is exactly right. ❍ Where exactly were you in France?
၃။ (သေချာကြောင်းပြောရာ၌ သုံးသောစကား)။ တကယ်ပါ။ အစစ်ပဲ။ အဲဒီအတိုင်းပဲ။ ‘So she wants to sell the house and move to Berlin. ’ ‘Exactly. ’
❏ not exactly [IDM ] (infml )
၁။ (ironic ) လုံးလုံး။ လုံးဝ။ He wasn't exactly pleased to see us; in fact he refused to open the door.
၂။ အသေအချာတော့ မဟုတ်ဘူး။ မဟုတ်ပါ ဘူး။ ‘Do you have an appointment, sir?’
‘Not exactly, but I know he'll see me. ’ exactness n [U]