EXACTLY

adverb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

correspond closely/exactly/precisely to sth

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The description of these events corresponds closely to other accounts written at the time.

exactly equal

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The food is shared out in exactly equal portions among all members of the community.

exactly right

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My figures may not be exactly right.

exactly the same

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Your measurements are exactly the same as Dana’s.

exactly/precisely the opposite (= completely different than what has been said )

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It looks simple, but it is exactly the opposite.

just/exactly the same sth

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That’s funny – Simon said exactly the same thing.

know exactly/precisely

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I know exactly how you feel.

match exactly/closely/perfectly

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The copy closely matches the original.

My sentiments exactly (= I agree )

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‘After all, it’s her decision.’ ‘ My sentiments exactly .’

not exactly sure

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I’m not exactly sure when the funeral is.

precisely/exactly the kind

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This was precisely the kind of help that she needed.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

right

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You might well find something that is exactly right for you that you didn't even know about earlier.

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On that point, he got it exactly right .

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Wedges are used under the former to get the vertical position exactly right .

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It helps kids to focus less on whether they are exactly right and more on thinking like a mathematician.

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Theatre administrator Patricia McBride is calling on expert help to get the boy's drawl exactly right .

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Setting unrealistic standards means we can only fail, nothing we do is ever enough or exactly right .

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They tend to be sensitive to every change in the atmosphere; they can not get the temperature exactly right .

■ VERB

correspond

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Practical Transformers Another problem is that the output voltage of transformers seldom correspond exactly to the rated voltage.

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First, no country has a political economy that corresponds exactly to either the market economy or the command economy.

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Instead, it was in areas on the right-hand side exactly corresponding to the language centres in the opposite hemisphere.

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An ideal type is illustrative, but it does not necessarily correspond exactly to any real-world example.

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I remember that he wrote that Michelangelo's drawing technique corresponded exactly to his Neoplatonism.

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Once again we are saying something in general form which corresponds exactly to the particularities of wave mechanics.

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Not that they corresponded exactly , but they were close enough.

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Apart from the addition of variables derived from the two new questions, the other tables do not exactly correspond .

do

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If you were abandoned on a desert island, you would have total personal sovereignty to do exactly what you want.

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Surely now he could do exactly as he liked.

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Many local jails do exactly that.

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Q.. What exactly does the term bankruptcy mean?

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He did exactly the same thing to Delino DeShields in the seventh.

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Now, Barak has pledged to do exactly that no later than July 7.

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Innovative programs that make use of mentors often do exactly this.

know

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Nobody knows exactly who built South Luffenham, but it is almost certain that an architect called John Sturges supplied the drawings.

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The voters knew exactly what they were voting for.

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So I knew exactly why I wanted to conduct it.

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I know exactly what the poor little darling is suffering.

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The little wife knew exactly what she was doing.

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But I know exactly where these ground-floor folks are coming from.

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Oh, if only she knew exactly what she did want!

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I wish I knew exactly what the territory ahead will look like, but I do not.

look

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They say he looked exactly like the family picture of old Sir Hugo, who first saw the Hound.

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Four of the five containers look exactly the same.

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While he ... All he needed, he sometimes thought, was a trunk to make him look exactly like an elephant.

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It looks exactly like a Georgetown party.

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He looked exactly the way he'd looked last time I'd seen him.

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He thought she looked exactly as Violet might look when sitting at the edge of a fish pond.

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Chick looked exactly like the kind of person who starred in public information films about not taking sweets from strangers.

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But the figure waiting at the customs barrier looked exactly the same.

match

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There was no doubt at all that her mother's clip exactly matched the right-hand side of the clasp on the doge's cloak.

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At this extreme duration the researchers noticed that the respirations of man and algae were not exactly matched .

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This almost exactly matches up with the periodic variation present in the Mercury-transit data.

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He was dressed in a scrupulously clean but threadbare dhoti and he wore a pale blue turban which exactly matched his eyes.

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This light is tuned so that the photon energy exactly matches the desired atomic transition energy.

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Tailor your list of achievements to match exactly the requirements of your future position, and leave everything else off.

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The structure will therefore match exactly what is achieved by the use of ordinary predicative position.

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When the losses incurred on the call are exactly matched by the profits received from the shares.

remember

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She tried hard to think back and remember exactly what she'd said that first night in Jarman House.

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Untying him, Ezra was sure he should remember exactly why, why the spectacle before him.

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I can remember exactly what it was like.

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But we who are pro-choice have to remember exactly what it is we are fighting for.

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Nobody remembers exactly where the restaurant is, but eventually we turn off past the sign for Belle Isle.

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Yet neither one of them could remember exactly what had been said; the words had dissipated, leaving only charged air.

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An instant later she remembered exactly where she was.

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Many people today, worldwide, remember exactly what they were doing when John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I know (just/exactly) how you feel

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I have a sudden urge to touch her, to hold her, to tell her I know how she feels .

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I knew how he felt about me -- a short blind boy who hated leather basketballs.

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I know how he feels about me!

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I know how you feel about it ... You would rather wait - wait till we're married.

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I know how you feel , Doyle thought.

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I know how you feel , they're all or nothing.

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You ran a decent campaign, John, and I know how it feels to lose.

be just/exactly so

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Everything has to be just so at Maxine's dinner parties.

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But this turned out to be just so much more Super Bowl hype.

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Flashman is just so bitter - he's blaming us, but we just wanted our money above aboard.

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I was just so furious that I swept out in high dudgeon.

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I was just so pumped up to do good.

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I went downstairs, I was just so struck by musicians and live music.

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If it was a microcap fund it would be different because there are just so many microcap stocks you can buy.

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Now, nations are just so many men like these.

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There were just so many animals around.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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Assemble the table exactly as shown in the diagram on the left.

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Glue the pieces together, exactly as shown in the diagram.

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I'm sure he knew exactly what he was doing.

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I don't exactly know how to dry herbs, could you show me?

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It's exactly 5 o'clock.

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It tastes exactly the same as meat.

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It took us exactly two hours to get here.

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That's exactly right.

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That's exactly the sort of material I'm looking for.

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That's exactly what happened to me!

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The baby was born almost exactly a year after they were married.

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The bill came to exactly $1000.

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The doctors can't say exactly what's wrong with my mother.

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The earrings are beautiful! They're exactly what I wanted.

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The police want to know exactly when you left the building.

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This is exactly the kind of job that computers are good at.

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What exactly did you want to see?

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Where exactly are you from?

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You must do exactly as I say.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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But the truth is that the speech did exactly what Dole and his advisers wanted it to do.

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He couldn't, though, for exactly the same reasons that he had left her in the first place.

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Some members stay in Washington, but I knew exactly where I was going.

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The kittens know instinctively what to do, they just have to learn exactly how to do it skilfully.

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These latter were nearly all middle-aged or C3 with bad eyesight, so the outlook was not exactly exhilarating.