TACT
\tˈakt], \tˈakt], \t_ˈa_k_t]\
Definitions of TACT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The sense of touch; feeling.
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Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
By Oddity Software
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The sense of touch; feeling.
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Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
By Noah Webster.
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Sympathetic understanding; ability to manage others with consideration for their feelings.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Touch; feeling; "Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight, and assume corporeality as well as form."-Southey: peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; skill or adroitness in doing or saying exactly what is required by circumstances; as, to be gifted with feminine tact. "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."-Macaulay: the stroke in beating time in music.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Touch; feeling; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception, specially in seeing exactly what to say and do in given circumstances.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
