tact
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)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 and avoid statements that will give offence or pain even if true.
By the use of tact, she was able to calm her jealous husband.
I used tact when I told my fat uncle that his extra weight made him look better.
Đồng nghĩa: sensitivity, consideration, diplomacy, tactfulness, discretion
- 2.
(uncountable)Propriety; manners (etiquette).
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)The sense of touch; feeling.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)(music) The stroke in beating time.
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)(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).
- 6.
(abbreviation, alt of, clipping, slang)Clipping of tactic.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(psychology) To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant).
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ine-pro French tact, following a semantic shift from earlier tact (sense of touch; feeling), borrowed from Latin tāctus (touched). The borrowing was likely influenced by earlier tact (sense of touch; feeling), which was a parallel borrowing directly from the Latin.