tact

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n. 机智, 手法, 老练 [经] (自动加工线的)生产节拍

发音

AU /tækt/
UK /tækt/

词形变化

tacts 复数 tacted tacting tacts 三单 tacting 现在分词 tacted 过去式 tacted 过去分词

释义与例句

n. C1
  1. 1.

    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.

    机智

    轻重感

    分寸感

    礼貌

    不可数

    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.

  2. 2.

    Propriety; manners (etiquette).

    不可数
  3. 1.

    The sense of touch; feeling.

    可数 不可数
  4. 2.

    The stroke in beating time.

    可数 不可数 音乐
  5. 3.

    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).

    可数 不可数 心理学
  6. 1.

    Clipping of tactic.

    俚语
v.
  1. 1.

    To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant).

    心理学

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

tactfulness

上位词 3

consideration considerateness thoughtfulness

下位词 7

address diplomacy delicacy finesse discreetness savoir-faire tactfulness

相关短语

tact time tact times takt time in tact change tact change of tact change of tack change tack

词源

Borrowed from 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 English tact (“sense of touch; feeling”), which was a parallel borrowing directly from the Latin.

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