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Exact vs Enjoin - What's the difference?

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Exact is a related term of enjoin.


As verbs the difference between exact and enjoin

is that exact is to demand and enforce the payment or performance of while enjoin is (transitive|chiefly|literary) to lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.

As an adjective exact

is precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.

exact

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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)
    • I see thou art exact of taste.
  • * 1661 , , 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
  • Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • An exact command, / Larded with many several sorts of reason.
  • (algebra, of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.

    • Synonyms

    * (precisely agreeing) perfect, true, correct, precise * (precisely or definitely conceived or stated) strict * spot on

    Antonyms

    * (precisely agreeing) inexact, imprecise, approximate * (precisely or definitely conceived or stated) loose

    Derived terms

    * exactly * exactness * exact sequence

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To demand and enforce the payment or performance of.
    • to exact tribute, fees, or obedience
  • * Bible, Luke iii. 13
    • He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
  • To make desirable or necessary.
  • * Massinger
    • My designs exact me in another place.
  • To forcibly obtain or produce.
    • to exact revenge

    Derived terms

    * exactable * exacter * exacting * exactor

    External links

    * * * 1000 English basic words ----

    enjoin

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, chiefly, literary) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
  • * - Esther 9:31
    • To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them
  • * Shakespeare
    • I am enjoined by oath to observe three things.
  • (legal) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
  • * Kent
    • This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs.

    Related terms

    * injunction (pos n)

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