Exact vs Rare - What's the difference?
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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.
(cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).
* Dryden
Very uncommon; scarce.
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(US) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 328:
(US) To rear, bring up, raise.
(obsolete) early
* Chapman
Exact is a related term of rare.
As adjectives the difference between exact and rare
is that exact is precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect while rare is (cooking|particularly meats) cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense) or rare can be very uncommon; scarce or rare can be (obsolete) early.As verbs the difference between exact and rare
is that exact is to demand and enforce the payment or performance of while rare is (us|intransitive) to rear, rise up, start backwards.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
Derived terms
* exactable * exacter * exacting * exactorExternal links
* * * 1000 English basic words ----rare
English
Etymology 1
From a dialectal variant of rear, from (etyl) rere, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (UK)Adjective
(en-adj)- New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care / Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare .
Synonyms
* (cooked very lightly) sanguinaryAntonyms
* (cooked very lightly) well doneDerived terms
* medium-rareEtymology 2
From (etyl) rare, from (etyl) rare, .Adjective
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Synonyms
* (very uncommon) scarce, selcouth, seld, seldsome, selly, geason, uncommonAntonyms
* (very uncommon) commonDerived terms
* rare bird * rare earth mineralEtymology 3
Variant of rear .Verb
(rar)- Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.
Usage notes
* (rft-sense) Principal current, non-literary use is of the present participle raring' with a verb in "'''raring''' to". The principal verb in that construction is ''go''. Thus, '''''raring''' to go'' ("eager (to start something)") is the expression in which '''''rare is most often encountered as a verb.Etymology 4
Compare rather, rath.Adjective
(en adjective)- Rude mechanicals that rare and late / Work in the market place.