Dainty vs Exact - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Esteem, honour.
A delicacy.
* 1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
* (William Cowper)
(Canada, Prairies and northwestern Ontario) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square served at a social event (usually plural).
(obsolete)
(obsolete) Excellent; valuable, fine.
*, II.13:
Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
* Milton
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Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.
* Francis Bacon
* Shakespeare
Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* 1661 , ,
Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(algebra, of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.
To demand and enforce the payment or performance of.
* Bible, Luke iii. 13
To make desirable or necessary.
* Massinger
To forcibly obtain or produce.
Dainty is a related term of exact.
As adjectives the difference between dainty and exact
is that dainty is (obsolete) excellent; valuable, fine while exact is precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.As a noun dainty
is (obsolete) esteem, honour.As a verb exact is
to demand and enforce the payment or performance of.dainty
English
Noun
(dainties)- my case was deplorable enough, yet I had great cause for thankfulness that I was not driven to any extremities for food, but had rather plenty, even to dainties .
- [A table] furnished plenteously with bread, / And dainties , remnants of the last regale.
- (Ben Jonson)
Adjective
(er)- Heliogabalus the most dissolute man of the world, amidst his most riotous sensualities, intended, whensoever occasion should force him to it, to have a daintie death.
- Those dainty limbs which nature lent / For gentle usage and soft delicacy.
- They were a fine and dainty people.
- And let us not be dainty of leave taking, / But shift away.
Synonyms
* neat * petiteReferences
*exact
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I see thou art exact of taste.
The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
- An exact command, / Larded with many several sorts of reason.
Synonyms
* (precisely agreeing) perfect, true, correct, precise * (precisely or definitely conceived or stated) strict * spot onAntonyms
* (precisely agreeing) inexact, imprecise, approximate * (precisely or definitely conceived or stated) looseDerived terms
* exactly * exactness * exact sequenceVerb
(en verb)- to exact tribute, fees, or obedience
- He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
- My designs exact me in another place.
- to exact revenge