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tact

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Source Word

tact

IPA(Pronunciation)

/tækt/

countable uncountable abbreviation alt-of clipping slang

The sense of touch; feeling. / (music) The stroke in beating time.

Japanese Meaning

触覚、感触 / 音楽において、拍のアクセントまたはリズムの刻み

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Blind from birth, she relied on her keen tact to detect subtle textures and identify objects by touch.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

生まれつき盲目の彼女は、鋭い触覚を頼りに微妙な質感を感じ取り、触って物を識別していた。

Sense（1）

The sense of touch; feeling.

Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight?

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(music) The stroke in beating time.

Sense（3）

Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing.

He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（4）

(slang) Clipping of tactic.

Wanda "Hey, can you show us?"

Karen "No"

Brent "We promise not to make fun of you."

Karen "No"

Lacey "Okay, we promise TO make fun of you."

Karen "I'm getting a drink"

Lacey "I was trying a different tact."

Wanda "Bad tack."

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（5）

(psychology) A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).

Skinner (1957) saw such tacts as responses that are reinforced socially.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

tacts

（ plural ）

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