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# exactly

«exactly» in Mova's school dictionary: **just right, not more and not less** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (exactly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Exactly means just right, not more and not less. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exactly/#m1)

2) Exactly can mean in every way: exactly the same. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exactly/#m2)

3) «Exactly!» means yes, that is completely right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exactly/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: an amount with nothing more or less; no rounding or estimating; exact time and measures; science: measure exactly; everyday life: exactly on time, exactly what I wanted

### examples

- She has exactly $20. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exactly/#x1)
- The box holds exactly 12 eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exactly/#x2)
- How many exactly? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exactly/#x3)
- It took exactly 2 hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exactly/#x4)
- The twins look exactly the same. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exactly/#x5)
- Measure exactly 100 ml of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exactly/#x6)
- That's exactly what I wanted! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exactly/#x7)
- The bus came at exactly 8 o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exactly/#x8)
- Exactly at midnight the window opened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exactly/#x9)

### note

Use the exact number; do not estimate or round. Trap: none special. «About» or «roughly» are the opposite: they ask for an estimate.

### In the corpora

- [Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs, so no centipede has exactly 100 legs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/15/)
- [Long before there were gardeners, robins followed wild boar rooting through the forest floor for exactly the same reason.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/1/)
- [Despite their name, no centipede has exactly one hundred legs, and most millipedes have far fewer than a thousand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones/17/)
- [Macadamia nuts can make dogs weak, wobbly and sick for a day or two, and nobody knows exactly why.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/331-foods-that-are-dangerous-for-pets-chocolate-grapes-onions-and-lilies/14/)
- [The Rat: «The worst of it is, I don't exactly know where we are.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/36/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «exactly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exactly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.