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Exactly   /ɪgzˈæktli/   Listen
Exactly

adverb
1.
Indicating exactness or preciseness.  Synonyms: just, precisely.  "It was just as he said--the jewel was gone" , "It has just enough salt"
2.
Just as it should be.  Synonyms: on the button, on the dot, on the nose, precisely.
3.
In a precise manner.  Synonyms: incisively, precisely.






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"Exactly" Quotes from Famous Books



... job before him suited him exactly, and, after leaving Martinton, he settled back with his hand on the tiller and his eyes on the sails in ...
— The Young Bridge-Tender - or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle • Arthur M. Winfield

... Hotel offered exactly the same conditions as did the Parker House; except that the proprietor was curt and had no time for us at all. From that point, still dissatisfied, we extended our investigations beyond the Plaza. We ...
— Gold • Stewart White

... she was not very likely to give me an affectionate reception, seeing that I found it inconvenient to keep sending her money for Jane's keep in the old days. The queer thing is, that everything turned out exactly the opposite of what I had expected. Mrs. Peckover had rather a sour face at first, but after a little talk she began to seem quite glad to see me. She put me into a room, undertook to board me for a while—till I find work, and I wonder when that'll ...
— The Nether World • George Gissing

... were left to their own devices. When once this idea has found firm lodgment in the head of an astute deer, the very first thing that he will do will be to get into an asylum of this sort, and to stay there; if he has any business to transact beyond its boundaries, exactly as an Indian would do in similar circumstances, he will delegate the same to a young buck who is on his promotion, and has his reputation to make, and who possesses the untarnished courage of ignorance and youth. It seems ...
— American Big Game in Its Haunts • Various

... Virginem", alluded to by Chaucer. The Christ Church Psaltery, about 1370, has musical notation and is exquisitely illuminated. Lionel Power, an Anglo-Irishman, wrote the first English treatise on music in 1395. Exactly a century later, in 1495, a music school was founded in Christ ...
— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox


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