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Exacta

Definition: Exacta

Exacta

Noun

1. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Exacta

Synonym: perfecta (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Exacta

Non-English Usage: "Exacta" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (exact), Spanish (correct).

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Commercial Usage: Exacta

DomainTitle

Books

  • Aproximaciâon al lâexico venezolano del siglo XVIII a travâes de la Descripciâon exacta de la provincia de Benezuela, de J.L. Cisneros (reference)

  • Exacta 35Mm Guide (reference)

  • Exacta Expose (reference)

  • Exacta Medica (reference)

  • Exacta Medica: Reference Tables and Data for the Medical and Nursing Professions (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Exacta

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Guatemala

The 1994 killing by police of four workers at La Exacta farm remained under investigation, and the criminal case remained suspended. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Exacta

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  exacta

39

  exacta hora

15

  dc exacta shoes

8

  exacta digital

5

  box exacta

5

  exacta hora la

5

  camera exacta

4

  exacta med

3

  exacta varex

3

  dc exacta

3

  bet exacta

3

  ciencia economia es exacta la una

2

  66 exacta

2

  exacta horse racing

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Exacta

Derivations

Words beginning with "exacta": exactable, exactas. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Exacta" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eatcha, ecact, eggsact, egzact, Erakat, exac, exacte, exactra, exacty, exanct, exca, excact, excta, execra, Extasea, Exwaste, iacta, irachta, ixact, xact. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Exacta

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-t-x"

-1 letter: aceta, exact.

-2 letters: acta, cate, tace, taxa.

-3 letters: ace, act, ate, axe, cat, eat, eta, tae, tax, tea.

-4 letters: aa, ae, at, ax, et, ex, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-t-x"
 

+1 letter: exactas.

 

+2 letters: chateaux, excavate.

 

+3 letters: catalexes, catalexis, cataplexy, exactable, exarchate, excavated, excavates, excavator.

 

+4 letters: curtalaxes, exacerbate, exarchates, excavating, excavation, excavators, paclitaxel.

 

+5 letters: carboxylate, cataplexies, exacerbated, exacerbates, excavations, exclamation, exclamatory, extractable, oxalacetate, paclitaxels.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Exacta


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 78 61 63 74 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -..-    .-    -.-.    -    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01111000 01100001 01100011 01110100 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#120 &#97 &#99 &#116 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0078 0061 0063 0074 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

399067698667

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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