Exaction

Definition

exact /Çg'zækt/ adj ၁။ တိက်ေသာ။ တစ္ထပ္တည္းက်ေသာ။ 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) အလြန္တိက်ေသာ။ ေစ့စပ္ေသခ်ာေသာ။ She's a very exact person. (ခ) (သိပၸံ သေဘာအရ) ပံုေသကားက်။ Bringing up children is not an exact science, you know! v ~ sth (from sb) အတင္းေတာင္းဆိုသည္။ အရယူသည္။ ညႇစ္ယူသည္။ The kidnappers exacted a ransom of £50,000 from the family. ❍ He exacted a terrible revenge for their treatment of him. ❏ exacting adj အမွားမခံေသာ။ ကြက္တိျဖစ္ေသာ။ 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 ) တိက်မွန္ကန္မႈ။ scholarly exactitude. ❏ exactly adv ၁။ တိတိ။ အံကိုက္။ အေသအခ်ာ။ 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။ အတိအက်။ Your answer is exactly right. ❍ Where exactly were you in France? ၃။ (ေသခ်ာေၾကာင္းေျပာရာ၌ သံုးေသာစကား)။ တကယ္ပါ။ အစစ္ပဲ။ အဲဒီအတိုင္းပဲ။ ‘So she wants to sell the house and move to Berlin. ’ ‘Exactly. ’ ❏ not exactly [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ ( ironic ) လံုးလံုး။ လံုးဝ။ He wasn't exactly pleased to see us; in fact he refused to open the door. ၂။ အေသအခ်ာေတာ့ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ မဟုတ္ပါ ဘူး။ ‘Do you have an appointment, sir?’ ‘Not exactly, but I know he'll see me. ’ exactness n [U]

Examples

1. This is an exact replica of the original ship.
2. We need to establish the exact sequence of events leading up to the accident.
3. She led rescuers to the exact spot where the injured climber was lying.
4. It was a meeting some time in June: I can’t remember the exact date.