exact spot

collocation in English

meaningsofexactandspot

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exact
adjective
uk
/ɪɡˈzækt/us
/ɪɡˈzækt/
in great detail, or complete, correct, or true in ...
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spot
noun[C]
uk
/spɒt/us
/spɑːt/
a small, usually round area of colour that is differently coloured or lighter or darker than the surface ...
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(Definition ofexactandspotfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But then the observer could not fixate on theexactspotwhere the stimulus would appear.
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It would thus be very difficult or impossible to pin-point precisely theexactspotto which female flies are attracted.
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The common link between these cases is use of the same exit on level 6 via the top tier walkway, theexactspotwhere the index case vomited.
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Does it really mean theexactspotor only roughly the district?
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A boundary marker indicates theexactspot.
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The synagogue was built on the sameexactspot.
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In tears, he placed the icon back in theexactspothe had taken it from.
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A large railroad spike driven into the rocks mark thisexactspoton the county line.
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It is theexactspotwhere public hangings used to be conducted.
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Once the war ended, nobody could remember theexactspotwhere the statue had been buried.
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Could not her enforcement officers tell her that they know where these barrows are being loaded every day, and theexactspotat which they are being loaded?
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Theexactspotof this discovery, the pieces appearance and its whereabouts are now no longer known.
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Each of the four memorials is located on theexactspotwhere the student fell, mortally wounded.
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He knew theexactspotwhere we should stand and no one dared be half an inch out of place.
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He scored at virtually the sameexactspotin the stadium as he did six years before.
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Trees could be used if the corner happened to fall at theexactspotwhere one grew.
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As of 2011, theexactspotwhere the first game took place is memorialized by an illuminated monument.
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The summer house being so placed as to occupy theexactspotfrom which it was to be seen.
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By travelling in a straight line one will eventually return to theexactspotone started from.
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Theexactspotis marked beneath an altar by a 14-pointed silver star set into the marble floor and surrounded by silver lamps.
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The female arrives in response to these calls and deposits a small clutch of eggs on theexactspotfrom which the male was calling.
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He and his wife were buried in front of the manor home, although theexactspotis not now known because it was vandalized.
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But in the middle of the 20th century a house was built on theexactspotand the faeryring has never reappeared.
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Theexactspotin the cycle where the spear leaf dies is not absolute, but it is thought to be early in the disease process.
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It was just as well: less than thirty seconds after we moved, an enemy shell whistled in and exploded on theexactspotwe'd just quit.
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