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$dict -S exact linuc
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5 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Exact Ex*act", v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exacted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Exacting}.] [From L. exactus, p. p. of exigere; or fr. LL.
exactare: cf. OF. exacter. See {Exact}, a.]
To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a
right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel
to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward
when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one
subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience,
etc., from or of some one.
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He said into them, Exact no more than that which is
appointed you. --Luke. iii.
13.
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Years of servise past
From grateful souls exact reward at last --Dryden.
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My designs
Exact me in another place. --Massinger.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Exact Ex*act", a. [L. exactus precise, accurate, p. p. of
exigere to drive out, to demand, enforce, finish, determine,
measure; ex out + agere to drive; cf. F. exact. See {Agent},
{Act}.]
1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth;
perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short
in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock
keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of
a letter; exact accounts.
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I took a great pains to make out the exact truth.
--Jowett
(Thucyd. )
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2. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a
promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact
in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact. "I
see thou art exact of taste." --Milton.
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3. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
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An exact command,
Larded with many several sorts of reason. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Exact Ex*act", v. i.
To practice exaction. [R.]
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The anemy shall not exact upon him. --Ps. lxxxix.
22.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
exact
adj 1: marked by strict and particular and complete accordance
with fact; "an exact mind"; "an exact copy"; "hit the
exact center of the target" [ant: {inexact}]
2: (of ideas, images, representations, expressions)
characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ;
strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement"
[syn: {accurate}, {exact}, {precise}]
v 1: claim as due or just; "The bank demanded payment of the
loan" [syn: {demand}, {exact}]
2: take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of
affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work
took its toll on her" [syn: {claim}, {take}, {exact}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
183 Moby Thesaurus words for "exact":
accurate, appreciative, ask, ask for, assess, attentive, badger,
be hurting for, be indicated, blackmail, brook no denial,
burden with, call for, careful, challenge, charge, charge for,
claim, clamor for, close, compel, conscientious, conscionable,
constant, consummate, correct, critical, cry for, cry out for,
delicate, demand, demanding, detailed, dictate, differential,
direct, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive,
distinguishing, enforce, enjoin, even, exacting, exigent, express,
exquisite, extort, extract, faithful, fasten upon, fastidious,
faultless, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, force from,
freight with, full, fussy, gouge, have occasion for, heedful,
identical, impose, impose on, impose upon, indent, inerrable,
inerrant, infallible, inflict on, inflict upon, insist on,
insist upon, issue an ultimatum, lay, lay on, leave no option,
levy, levy blackmail, literal, make a demand, make dutiable,
mathematical, methodical, meticulous, micrometrically precise,
microscopic, minute, narrow, necessitate, need, nice, oblige,
order, order up, orderly, painstaking, particular, perfect,
picayune, pinch, pinpoint, place, place an order, precious,
precise, precisian, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic,
prerequire, pro rata, proper, prorate, pry loose from, punctilious,
punctual, puristic, put, put down, put in requisition, put on,
put upon, refined, religious, religiously exact, rend, rend from,
require, requisition, right, rigid, rigorous, rip, rip from,
saddle with, scientific, scientifically exact, screw, scrupulous,
scrutinizing, selective, selfsame, sensitive, set, severe, shake,
shake down, snatch from, special, specific, square, squeeze,
stick for, strict, subject to, subtle, tactful, take doing,
take no denial, task, tax, tear from, thorough, tithe, true,
undeviating, unerring, very, want, want doing, warn,
weight down with, wrench, wrench from, wrest, wring, wring from,
yoke with
No definitions found for "linuc", perhaps you mean:
gcide: Linum
wn: linac linum linux
jargon: linus linux
foldoc: linc
hitchcock: Linus
$dict -r jeffrin
No definitions found for "jeffrin"
$dict -rv jeffrin
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$dict -rv unix
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3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
UNIX
n 1: trademark for a powerful operating system [syn: {UNIX},
{UNIX system}, {UNIX operating system}]
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:
Unix
/yoo'niks/, n.
[In the authors' words, ?A weak pun on Multics?; very early on it was
?UNICS?] (also ?UNIX?) An interactive timesharing system invented in 1969
by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he
could play games on his scavenged PDP-7. Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of C,
is considered a co-author of the system. The turning point in Unix's
history came when it was reimplemented almost entirely in C during
1972?1974, making it the first source-portable OS. Unix subsequently
underwent mutations and expansions at the hands of many different people,
resulting in a uniquely flexible and developer-friendly environment. By
1991, Unix had become the most widely used multiuser general-purpose
operating system in the world ? and since 1996 the variant called {Linux}
has been at the cutting edge of the {open source} movement. Many people
consider the success of Unix the most important victory yet of hackerdom
over industry opposition (but see {Unix weenie} and {Unix conspiracy} for
an opposing point of view). See {Version 7}, {BSD}, {Linux}.
[richiethom]
Archetypal hackers ken (left) and dmr (right).
Some people are confused over whether this word is appropriately ?UNIX? or
?Unix?; both forms are common, and used interchangeably. Dennis Ritchie
says that the ?UNIX? spelling originally happened in CACM's 1974 paper The
UNIX Time-Sharing System because ?we had a new typesetter and {troff} had
just been invented and we were intoxicated by being able to produce small
caps.? Later, dmr tried to get the spelling changed to ?Unix? in a couple
of Bell Labs papers, on the grounds that the word is not acronymic. He
failed, and eventually (his words) ?wimped out? on the issue. So, while the
trademark today is ?UNIX?, both capitalizations are grounded in ancient
usage; the Jargon File uses ?Unix? in deference to dmr's wishes.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 July 2010) [foldoc]:
Unix
/yoo'niks/ (Or "UNIX", in the authors'
words, "A weak pun on Multics") Plural "Unices". An
interactive {time-sharing} {operating system} invented in 1969
by {Ken Thompson} after {Bell Labs} left the {Multics}
project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged
{PDP-7}. {Dennis Ritchie}, the inventor of {C}, is considered
a co-author of the system.
The turning point in Unix's history came when it was
reimplemented almost entirely in C during 1972 - 1974, making
it the first {source-portable} OS. Unix subsequently
underwent mutations and expansions at the hands of many
different people, resulting in a uniquely flexible and
{developer}-friendly environment.
By 1991, Unix had become the most widely used {multi-user}
general-purpose operating system in the world. Many people
consider this the most important victory yet of hackerdom over
industry opposition (but see {Unix weenie} and {Unix
conspiracy} for an opposing point of view).
Unix is now offered by many manufacturers and is the subject
of an international standardisation effort [called?].
Unix-like operating systems include {AIX}, {A/UX}, {BSD},
{Debian}, {FreeBSD}, {GNU}, {HP-UX}, {Linux}, {NetBSD},
{NEXTSTEP}, {OpenBSD}, {OPENSTEP}, {OSF}, {POSIX}, {RISCiX},
{Solaris}, {SunOS}, {System V}, {Ultrix}, {USG Unix}, {Version
7}, {Xenix}.
"Unix" or "UNIX"? Both seem roughly equally popular, perhaps
with a historical bias toward the latter. "UNIX" is a
registered trademark of {The Open Group}, however, since it is
a name and not an acronym, "Unix" has been adopted in this
dictionary except where a larger name includes it in upper
case. Since the OS is {case-sensitive} and exists in many
different versions, it is fitting that its name should reflect
this.
{The UNIX Reference Desk
(http://geek-girl.com/unix.html)}.
{Spanish fire extinguisher
(ftp://linux.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/linux/people/okir/unix_flame.gif)}.
[{Jargon File}]
(2001-05-14)
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