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/icons/point.icon DEMAND, CLAIM, REQUIRE, EXACT mean to ask or call for something as due or as necessary.
DEMAND implies peremptoriness and insistence and often the right to make requests that are to be regarded as commands.
e.g. demanded payment of the debt
CLAIM implies a demand for the delivery or concession of something due as one's own or one's right.
e.g. claimed the right to manage his own affairs
REQUIRE suggests the imperativeness that arises from inner necessity, compulsion of law or regulation, or the exigencies of the situation.
e.g. the patient requires constant attention
EXACT implies not only demanding but getting what one demands.
e.g. exacts absolute loyalty
/icons/point.icon CORRECT, ACCURATE, EXACT, PRECISE, NICE, RIGHT mean conforming to fact, standard, or truth.
CORRECT usually implies freedom from fault or error.
e.g. correct answers socially correct dress
ACCURATE implies fidelity to fact or truth attained by exercise of care.
e.g. an accurate description
EXACT stresses a very strict agreement with fact, standard, or truth.
e.g. exact measurements
PRECISE adds to EXACT an emphasis on sharpness of definition or delimitation.
e.g. precise calibration
NICE stresses great precision and delicacy of adjustment or discrimination.
e.g. makes nice distinctions
RIGHT is close to CORRECT but has a stronger positive emphasis on conformity to fact or truth rather than mere absence of error or fault.
e.g. the right thing to do
/icons/point.icon 類義 exactとcorrect, right, accurate, precise
exact: 場所･時間･数量･形などについて, 細部に至るまで違いがない厳密さを強調する語
correct: 〘ややかたく〙 で, 計算･分析･判断などに誤りがないことや, 標準･規則･事実に合っていることで, 時に道徳的･法律的な正しさを含意する
right: 日常英語では代わりにしばしばrightが用いられる
accurate: 情報･知識･描写･記述などについて, 事実･真実に一致するように積極的に努力して, 誤りなく的確であること
precise: 位置･詳細･数値･情報などの正確さについて精密さ･慎重さを強調する語
adjective
not approximated in any way; precise:
〖通例名詞の前で〗(細部まで寸分の違いもなく)正確な, 的確な, ぴったりの; まさにその
e.g. the exact details were still being worked out.
accurate or correct in all details:
e.g. an exact replica, two feet tall, was constructed.
(of a person) tending to be accurate and careful about minor details:
〈方法などが〉厳密な, 精密な; 〈人が〉慎重な, きちょうめんな
e.g. she was an exact, clever manager.
(of a subject of study) permitting precise or absolute measurements as a basis for rigorously testable theories:
〈規則などが〉厳しい, 厳格な
e.g. psychomedicine isn't an exact science yet.
verb with object
demand and obtain (something, especially a payment) from someone:
【人に】〈支払いなど〉を要求する; 〈犠牲･服従など〉を強いる, 強要する «from»
e.g. tributes exacted from the Slavic peoples
e.g. William's advisers exacted an oath of obedience from the clergy.
inflict (revenge) on someone:
«人/…することによって» 〈復讐（ふくしゅう）など〉を果たす «on/ by doing»
e.g. he exacts a cruel revenge against the winning candidate.
DERIVATIVES
exactable |iɡˈzaktəb(ə)l| adjective
exactor |iɡˈzaktər| noun
ORIGIN
late Middle English (as a verb): from Latin exact- ‘completed, ascertained, enforced’, from the verb exigere, from ex- ‘thoroughly’ + agere ‘perform’. The adjective dates from the mid 16th century and reflects the Latin exactus ‘precise’.