I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a direct/exact equivalent
▪ The word has no direct equivalent in English.
an accurate/exact translation
▪ The most accurate translation of the word would be ‘master’.
exact a priceformal (= make someone suffer)
▪ The success of the nation’s businesses has exacted a dreadful price from the people.
exact replica
▪ an exact replica of the Taj Mahal
exact/precise
▪ It's about 10 metres by 8 metres - I don't know the exact measurements.
▪ This special equipment allows us to make very precise measurements.
exact/precise/true nature
▪ The exact nature of the problem is not well understood.
exact/wreak revengeformal (= take revenge)
▪ He was exacting revenge on society.
precise/exact details
▪ Precise details of the evidence presented at that meeting have not yet been revealed.
precise/specific/exact
▪ The term ‘stress’ has a precise meaning to an engineer.
the exact figure
▪ The government was unable to give the exact figure for the number of foreign workers in the country.
the exact/precise date
▪ I can’t remember the exact date we moved into this house.
the exact/precise moment
▪ Her stomach chose that precise moment to make a loud noise.
the exact/precise/direct opposite
▪ My own experience says that the exact opposite is true.
the exact/same/very spot
▪ the exact spot where the king was executed
the right/exact word (=the word that has the meaning you want)
▪ He struggled to find the right word.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
age
▪ She didn't know Geoffrey's exact age, but the gap couldn't be less than five or six years.
▪ The exact age of the mill is not known, although the present foundations are no older than c1450.
▪ First, they establish the exact age and duration of these climate shifts.
▪ No member of the family knew her exact age and whatever they might have guessed she would have denied flatly.
▪ No-one knows for sure the exact age of the tree.
amount
▪ It continually updates so that you can see the exact amount of bytes free along with a graphical representation of the percentage free.
▪ The exact amount would depend on the amount of time spent connected.
▪ The exact amount is decided by Parliament and usually revised each year to take account of the rise in prices.
▪ They declined to provide an exact amount but said it totalled just below $ 400,000.
▪ To help fund the changes there will be extra money from Central Government but the exact amount is not yet known.
▪ The exact amount of historical detail will again depend on individual needs.
▪ The exact amount depends on the quality of resolution with which the images are rendered.
▪ Any rigid scheme that means exact amounts of specific exercise must be carried out each day is usually doomed to failure.
cause
▪ The Staffordshire authorities are carrying out an inquest into the accident to establish the exact cause of death.
▪ The exact cause of hypercalcemia in this disorder is poorly understood.
▪ The exact cause of the complaint has to be ascertained.
▪ Which is good, because pinpointing the exact cause of a flu-like malaise is often more art than science.
▪ The exact cause of this latest M-Forty tragedy may never be known.
▪ Surprisingly perhaps, linguists currently have little understanding of the exact causes of language change.
▪ Rumours that he had been deliberately poisoned were generally discredited, but the exact cause of his death was never established.
▪ It, however, seems necessary to carry out further research into adaptation to prismatic distortion in order to isolate the exact cause.
centre
▪ At the exact centre of the castle lay a vast, bare courtyard.
▪ The north and south winds met where the house stood, and made it the exact centre of the cyclone.
▪ The Kha-Khan's palace was in the exact centre of everything.
▪ The single model in the exact centre is hit.
▪ The penguin walked to the exact centre of her shrinking ice-floe and sat with her eyes shut.
circumstances
▪ But nowhere was there a mention of the exact circumstances in which they had been found.
▪ The exact circumstances of the ensuing events are difficult to establish.
▪ The exact circumstances concerning the building of the monument are not known.
▪ To know the exact circumstances of the building of the monument to James Macrae is of no consequence.
▪ Letterman has forgotten the exact circumstances.
colour
▪ It was a particular, exact colour.
▪ The program will attempt to match the original colours of the picture but an exact colour match may not always be possible.
▪ I was then sure that the brush was holding the exact colour the painting required.
copy
▪ Only where an exact copy is required is it important to have an exact match for timber.
▪ The Rossi style is so revered that construction of an exact copy was deemed presumptuous.
▪ Does An exact copy of a Michelangelo statue lose artistic merit because it doesn't have his name on it.
▪ It was an exact copy of the house he built twelve years ago down to every last thing in all the rooms.
date
▪ Details of exact dates of birth and death recorded here provide information not available in any public record. 24.
▪ The exact date for the closing has not been set.
▪ The exact date of the beginning of our post-imperial era is, however, relatively unimportant.
▪ D., continuously increase toward an end-the Second Comingwhose exact date in the future remains unknown.
▪ The exact date of its original building is disputed but it probably stems from the late fifth or early sixth century.
▪ The exact date was etched in memory because it was Day Five of my aborted Month of Celibacy.
▪ Nor is it so regular that we can trust to it altogether to fix the exact date of any given work.
▪ Peres is expected to announce an exact date next week.
detail
▪ By the solid building up of crisp and exact detail.
▪ The exact details of an emerging Bio2 ecology, he warned, were beyond predicting.
▪ They refused to give exact details of which chairmen will be going into the Treasury and when.
▪ The exact details are negotiable and depend on the circumstances of each deal.
▪ The exact details of these changes are not yet clear.
▪ The exact details of Gordon's further service with other Cleveland and South Durham newspapers aren't clear.
▪ The exact details however were still being worked out.
equivalent
▪ There is no exact equivalent of Taking the Side of the Other.
▪ Both printed and online forms of the bibliography are exact equivalents when conducting author searches.
▪ The basic spiritual treatment of eating disorders is the exact equivalent of that for Chemical Dependency.
▪ Copper pipe - actual sizes Mathematicians among you will notice that these are, in fact, not exact equivalents.
figure
▪ Clients are apt to minimise numbers of assignments, whilst headhunters maximise them, and neither are willing to divulge exact figures.
▪ No exact figure on how much revenue this generates could be obtained from state tax officials.
▪ The exact figure remains undisclosed, but will be the same as Mr Leigh-Pemberton's pay over the past year.
▪ State biologists estimate its statewide population at 4, 000 to 6, 000, but exact figures are not known.
▪ But for the writers and early translators of the Gospels, it was a very precise term, denoting a very exact figure.
▪ Rounding up from 0.3871, the more exact figure, to 0.39 gave Craig an unearned bonus of I 1.07 votes.
▪ In practice neither scholars nor officials ever have sufficient evidence to put forth an accurate, exact figure.
▪ It is impossible to give exact figures for non-returners for a number of reasons.
form
▪ The exact form of the dominance relations within a group of hens depends on the size of the group.
▪ As we have said, the exact form of union activity in Work-place 2000 is unclear.
▪ We do not yet know the exact form the correct theory of quantum gravity will take.
▪ We shall be looking at its exact form later.
location
▪ This question helps us determine the exact location for the various types of work that will be done.
▪ If the exact location of the incident is known the team members go directly to it.
▪ Nor should application developers have to code into their applications the exact locations of resources over the network.
▪ One of the problems Steve has encountered is finding the exact locations of where some of the equipment was installed.
▪ Give a copy to your removal firm together with a description or map of your home's exact location.
▪ The exact location is important, as are details of when the accident happened and how far some one has fallen.
▪ Their exact location can be determined by using the line ferret with or without a transmitter fitted to its collar.
match
▪ More often than not, browsing is presented to the user by default when the system fails to provide an exact match.
▪ An exact match will be sufficient to convict the farmer of a pollution infringement.
▪ If it can't find an exact match it will go the closest.
▪ In logical nets, generalization depends on chance exact match between some portion of the retinal image and a training instance.
▪ Only where an exact copy is required is it important to have an exact match for timber.
▪ As she touched his skin a noise escaped from Edward, an exact match for what he felt.
meaning
▪ Nurses frequently have difficulty in conveying the exact meaning of messages to patients and relatives.
▪ Choice of words and their arrangement in sentences to convey exact meaning are therefore vital in the activity of communicating.
▪ Others were disturbingly abstract, and Hawk could give her no clue as to their exact meaning.
▪ The Government have been woolly about the exact meaning of their proposals.
▪ Correct punctuation is neither an irrelevant luxury nor a pedantic affectation: it conveys and alters exact meaning.
▪ First, what was the exact meaning of the title?
▪ Discussions of the exact meaning of autonomy are absent in the debate between holists and individualists.
mechanism
▪ The exact mechanism behind this systemic effect remains to be elucidated.
▪ Much research is now aimed at discovering the exact mechanisms by which alcohol may harm a developing fetus.
▪ The exact mechanism of Hastings' fall is, however, less important than the motives behind it.
▪ The exact mechanism for this effect is unknown.
▪ The exact mechanisms for the Fund's administration have not been finalised.
moment
▪ But prosecutors in the Anwar Ibrahim indecency trial knew the exact moment of the chauffeur's trauma.
▪ I can tell you the exact moment he fell in love with her.
▪ It is difficult to trace the exact moment at which he decided that the military situation was hopeless.
▪ He looked up at the screen at the exact moment Rocky gave himself the name he would henceforth carry.
▪ The user has to judge the exact moment to stop.
nature
▪ Mystery still surrounds the exact nature of the accident.
▪ Starr would not comment on the exact nature of the new evidence, which Howard now holds under seal.
▪ Awareness of the exact nature of her surroundings was alarming.
▪ He took on several enterprises, but their exact nature was always obscure and there were no evident profits.
▪ There would be time to work out the exact nature of its functioning later.
▪ What was the exact nature of the social and political elite that dominated state and society at this time?
▪ By clarifying in your own mind the exact nature of these positions you can enter into bargaining with much greater confidence.
▪ He had remembered the story even if he had forgotten the exact nature of the secret signal.
number
▪ Because of the secrecy of the proceedings, nobody knows the exact numbers of those executed.
▪ While he did not provide exact numbers, that could mean cuts affecting hundreds if not thousands of positions.
▪ Above all, the exact number of armed Islamists is not known.
▪ I was trying to calculate the exact number of hours which the motion allows the Committee to spend debating the Bill.
▪ It is impossible to determine exact numbers and these estimates do not allow for the many hangers-on.
▪ Out comes my pocket calculator to work out if I have an exact number of repeats.
opposite
▪ John Major, he said, had the exact opposite of the Midas touch.
▪ Gloraida Malave, for example, was the exact opposite of Mones or Abukar.
▪ This may not always be so - indeed, the exact opposite may be the case.
▪ By temperament, Straus was an exact opposite of the slide-rule engineers who had guided the Bureau during its forty-odd years.
▪ It is the exact opposite of the truth.
▪ I said, which was about the exact opposite of what I really thought.
▪ He was lively, witty and darkly handsome - the exact opposite of George.
▪ Its exact opposite said that none of this meant anything at all.
parallel
▪ Galileo was humiliated in Rome in a manner that has no exact parallel in Protestant countries.
▪ That story has an almost exact parallel with one in the life of Haydn.
▪ There are no exact parallels between languages. 3.
▪ In this there is an exact parallel with sufferers from Chemical Dependency denying the severity of their illness.
▪ The goblet, which has no known exact parallel, was probably made in Murano, an island near Venice.
position
▪ Plans, sections, and even models were made, and the exact position of every object was recorded.
▪ Instead, the Cut / Copy Rectangle command used the exact position of the cursor to define the vertical section of text.
▪ The exact position doesn't matter as long as the N1 cam lies between the point cams.
▪ The crest was so rounded it was impossible to pinpoint the exact position of the infamous La.
▪ Their hand-held satellite navigation systems told them their exact position to within 15 metres.
▪ This method also makes it easier to plot the location of finds since one's exact position is always known.
▪ As one they made for the door, but had two dozen different recollections of its exact position.
▪ Now I come to think of it, she was rather vague regarding his exact position with the company.
replica
▪ We can rearrange Gary Oldman's hair into an exact replica of yours.
▪ But trying to find an exact replica of the Virginia garden would be a pedantic exercise.
▪ In reality, however, Netanyahu signed an agreement that is an exact replica of the old one.
▪ Actually, scientists say that cloned animals will not be exact replicas of their progenitors.
requirement
▪ The exact requirements of natural justice can vary depending on the particular situation.
▪ All the products can be personalised to the client's exact requirements.
▪ This will give the exact requirements for the system that you are going to buy.
▪ The exact requirements of the mortgagee to be contained in the conveyance or transfer should be ascertained.
▪ All Strachan fitted furniture is expertly crafted to your exact requirements in our own workshops.
science
▪ Any honest guitar maker will admit that making acoustics is no exact science, but an unpredictable art.
▪ The equation that determines housing appreciation is far from being an exact science.
▪ Systems analysis in general - and data analysis is a branch of systems analysis - is an art, not an exact science.
▪ Diagnosing power in organizations is not an exact science.
▪ The way he went on anyone would think we were engaged in an exact science.
▪ Living is never an exact science and we invariably over reach ourselves and destroy the balance of things.
▪ Nor have I been encouraged ever since to think there's an exact science.
▪ To listen to many authorities on nutrition, you might think that eating is an exact science.
shape
▪ Their boffins used sophisticated hospital scanners to mould the exact shape of Schuey's head to within one-tenth of a millimetre.
▪ The bundle in her hands was large and round, the exact shape and size of a human head.
▪ The exact shape of the engine bell has to be very carefully designed.
size
▪ The exact size of the word list should depend on the recognition application.
▪ Much depends on the exact size, energy, and location of the impactor.
▪ Cut out the bump to the exact size of buckram.
▪ An area certain to generate debate in the coming weeks is the exact size and shape of any tax cuts.
▪ You will need pelmet buckram and bump to equal the exact size of your pattern.
▪ The exact size of its staff is secret but was estimated at about 20,000 in the early 1980s.
solution
▪ What is the trade-off in terms of cost and time between an exact solution and an approximate one?
▪ It is convenient to consider separately in this chapter a number of other exact solutions that satisfy this same condition.
▪ This approach leads directly to various methods for generating further exact solutions.
▪ Having made these general remarks, we may now briefly review the new exact solutions that have been presented.
▪ In specific cases exact solutions of the stress distribution resulting from a given distribution of surface traction can be found.
▪ Digital computers were designed for exact solutions of mathematical equations.
▪ The first section is concerned with simple systems, where an exact solution of the wave equation is possible.
spot
▪ He wasn't interested in an examination by torchlight of the exact spot where Harry Lawrence and the contact had fallen.
▪ And at Niagara, guides pocketed tips by pointing to the exact spot where Sam Patch had made his last successful leap.
▪ Hundreds of temple volunteers ensured that you were seated in the exact spot marked out for you.
▪ The exact spot on the bridge table the gold vase belonged.
▪ They selected the exact spot which bisects exactly the continents and oceans.
▪ You can shew me the exact spot and that will save time.
▪ All I could see was the posts and the exact spot centrally between them where I was going to touch down.
time
▪ Because games may vary slightly in length you may not start at the exact time given.
▪ Through astrology one could be forewarned of the exact time of his coming.
▪ You will have to weigh it again once it is stuffed for an exact time.
▪ The exact time taken by the computer to reach the target doesn't matter.
▪ So the exact time - and day - of this statistically important happening depends very much on where it was recorded.
word
▪ I don't know the exact words.
▪ Primo senses she has said these exact words to newly arrived visitors before.
▪ Although Maggie couldn't make out the exact words, she knew they were from both sides.
▪ That she kept screaming these exact words and weeping had been placed on her record as the manifestation of a childhood delusion.
▪ You could not print the exact words used, but there were expletives.
▪ Perhaps from his seat in the dug out he was unable to hear the exact words, however.
▪ I can't remember Nick's exact words but Ray's comment inspired him more than upset him.
▪ For a moment he couldn't remember his exact words.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
put a figure on it/give an exact figure
sth is not an exact science
▪ Diagnosing power in organizations is not an exact science.
▪ The truth is that eating is not an exact science and never will be.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Can you tell me the exact time?" "It's 6.37."
▪ an exact replica of a 900-year-old Buddhist shrine
▪ Doctors do not know the exact cause of the disease.
▪ I can't remember her exact words, but this is the gist of what she said.
▪ I don't suppose you have the exact amount of money, do you?
▪ It's not an exact likeness, but it's recognisable as my father.
▪ It is difficult to determine the exact number of homeless people.
▪ It took her about an hour - 58 minutes to be exact.
▪ She's wearing the exact same dress I bought last week!
▪ The exact time is 2:37 p.m.
▪ The exact weight of the baby at birth was 3.2 kg.
▪ You need to give me the exact measurements of the room.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the exact timing is simply the Vadinamian way.
▪ At 80, you are the exact opposite.
▪ Finding out the exact proportions and method of preparation will take some time and be a very tricky operation.
▪ Give a copy to your removal firm together with a description or map of your home's exact location.
▪ More often than not, browsing is presented to the user by default when the system fails to provide an exact match.
▪ That same family, with the exact same buying power, would have been forced into the 40-percent bracket by 1980.
▪ The analysis thus involves the exact description not only of the language of the text, but also of its content.
▪ The bill does not, however, specify the exact procedure for notification.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
revenge
▪ When de Raimes had exacted his revenge he would hand her over to his knight, who would complete her destruction.
▪ In fact, the farmer was so mean to this young man he determined to exact revenge.
toll
▪ The end might now be in sight, but the Eiger had exacted a grim toll for the right of passage.
▪ Among the jazz artists, drugs and liquor have exacted a terrible toll.
▪ But this case appears to be exacting a greater toll.
▪ Analysts say the steep price markdowns that retailers took all month will exact a heavy toll on profits.
▪ Outsourcing and restructuring continue to exact a heavy toll even in the tight labor markets of the mid-1990s.
▪ Fulfilling some aspects of the accord is exacting a heavier toll on the United States than many expected.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adults forget that most children really do want to grow up, if only to exact their own small revenges.
▪ Among the jazz artists, drugs and liquor have exacted a terrible toll.
▪ But like all strong magic, it exacts a price.
▪ Indeed, they may have to be manufactured to exact customer specifications.
▪ It is not exacting with regard to temperature and is suitable for tropical as well as cold-water aquariums.
▪ Payment was to be exacted through a land tax or rent set by the republics according to the quality of the land.
▪ Yet each was built by hand to exacting standards.