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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Tact \Tact\, n. [L. tactus a touching, touch, fr. tangere,
     tactum, to touch: cf. F. tact. See Tangent.]
     1. The sense of touch; feeling.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Did you suppose that I could not make myself
              sensible to tact as well as sight?    --Southey.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Now, sight is a very refined tact.    --J. Le Conte.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Mus.) The stroke in beating time.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice
        perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and
        doing what is required by circumstances.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much
              as the tact of her sex surpassed the tact of ours.
                                                    --Macaulay.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Tact \Tact\, n. [L. tactus a touching, touch, fr. tangere,
     tactum, to touch: cf. F. tact. See Tangent.]
     1. The sense of touch; feeling.
  
              Did you suppose that I could not make myself
              sensible to tact as well as sight?    --Southey.
  
              Now, sight is a very refined tact.    --J. Le Conte.
  
     2. (Mus.) The stroke in beating time.
  
     3. Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice
        perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and
        doing what is required by circumstances.
  
              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.
  
              A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much
              as the tact of her sex surpassed the tact of ours.
                                                    --Macaulay.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  tact
       n : consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving
           offence [syn: tactfulness] [ant: tactlessness]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  tact
     Γαλλικά n.
     1 (παρωχ) η αφή, το άγγιγμα
     2 η αίσθηση της αφής, η εκτίμηση των διαφόρων ερέθισμα που ασκώ στο
  σώμα
     3 (μτφρ) (παρωχ) η διαίσθηση
     4 το τακτ

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  tact
     French n.
     (l en tact)
     n.
     The sense of touch; feeling. (from 1650s)
     vb.
     (lb en psychology) To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun
  sense).

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  tact
     n.
     The sense of touch; feeling. (from 1650s)
     vb.
     (lb en psychology) To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun
  sense).

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  tact
     French n.
     (l en tact)
     n.
     The sense of touch; feeling. (from 1650s)
     vb.
     (lb en psychology) To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun
  sense).

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  tact
     French n.
     (l en tact)
     n.
     The sense of touch; feeling. (from 1650s)
     vb.
     (lb en psychology) To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun
  sense).

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  tact
     Englanti n.
     1 tahti
     2 tahdikkuus (käytöstavoissa)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  tact
     Franska n.
     takt

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-afr ]

  tact /tˈakt/
  beleid

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Tact /tˈakt/
  الكياسة

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  tact //tækt// 
  тактичност
  sensitive mental touch

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  tact /tˈakt/ 
  takt

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  tact /tˈakt/
  Taktgefühl , Takt  [soc.]
        "with great tact"  - mit feinem Takt
        "his lack of tact"  - sein mangelndes Taktgefühl
        "show a lack of tact"  - es an Takt fehlen lassen
        "require great tact"  - viel Taktgefühl erfordern
     Synonym: sense of tact
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  tact /tˈakt/
  
  διπλωματικότητα

From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-fra ]

  tact /tækt/
  mesure, tact

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  tact /tˈakt/ 
  1. चातुर्य
        "He showed tact in handling the situation."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  tact /tˈakt/
  osjećaj mjere, takt, umješnost

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  tact /tˈakt/
  tapintat

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  tact //tækt// 
  タクト, 如才ない, 愛想, 礼儀
  sensitive mental touch

From English-Lithuanian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.7.2 :   [ freedict:eng-lit ]

  tact /tækt/
  taktas

From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-nld ]

  tact /tækt/
  beleid, maat, tact, ritme

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  tact /tækt/ 
    takt

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  tact /tækt/ 
  andamento, compasso, tato, tino

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  tact /tˈakt/
  1. incelik, zarafet
  2. nezaket
  3. dokunma duyusu
  4. vakit ve halin icabına göre hareket.

From French-Breton FreeDict Dictionary (Geriadur Tomaz) ver. 0.2.7 :   [ freedict:fra-bre ]

   (sans t.) tact /tˈakt/
  dibalamour

From French-Breton FreeDict Dictionary (Geriadur Tomaz) ver. 0.2.7 :   [ freedict:fra-bre ]

  tact /tˈakt/
  kuñvelezh, stek

From French-Breton FreeDict Dictionary (Geriadur Tomaz) ver. 0.2.7 :   [ freedict:fra-bre ]

   (toucher) tact /tˈakt/
  stok

From français-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:fra-bul ]

  tact /takt/ 
  тактичност
  Sens des convenances

From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.4.1 :   [ freedict:fra-eng ]

  tact /takt/ 
  musical time, tact

From français-italiano FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:fra-ita ]

  tact /takt/ 
  tatto 2.
  Sens des convenances
   3.
  Sens du toucher

From French-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:fra-nld ]

  tact /takt/
  beleid, maat, tact, ritme

From Nederlands-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:nld-bul ]

  tact /tˈɑkt/ 
  тактичност

From Dutch-German FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:nld-deu ]

  tact /tɑkt/
  Takt 

From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:nld-eng ]

  tact /tɑkt/
  musicaltime, tact

From Nederlands-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:nld-fra ]

  tact /tɑkt/
  mesure, tact

From Nederlands-język polski FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:nld-pol ]

  tact /tˈɑkt/ 
  takt

From Nederlands-português FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:nld-por ]

  tact /tˈɑkt/ 
  tato

From Nederlands-Русский FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:nld-rus ]

  tact /tˈɑkt/ 
  такт

From Nederlands-español FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:nld-spa ]

  tact /tˈɑkt/ 
  tacto

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈtækt/

From IPA:fr :   [ IPA:fr ]

  

/takt/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  175 Moby Thesaurus words for "tact":
     ability, accommodatingness, acumen, acuteness, address, adeptness,
     adroitness, agreeableness, airmanship, allergy, amenity,
     anaphylaxis, appreciation, appreciation of differences,
     appreciativeness, artfulness, artisanship, artistic judgment,
     artistry, attentiveness, bravura, brilliance, capability, capacity,
     care, carefulness, civility, cleverness, comity, command,
     competence, complaisance, concern, connoisseurship,
     considerateness, consideration, control, coordination,
     courteousness, courtesy, craft, craftsmanship, critical niceness,
     criticalness, cunning, deference, deftness, delicacy, dexterity,
     dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, discernment, discretion,
     discriminating taste, discriminatingness, discrimination,
     discriminativeness, efficiency, empathy, expertise, exquisiteness,
     facility, fastidiousness, feel, feeling, fine palate, fineness,
     finesse, gallantry, grace, gracefulness, graciousness, grip,
     handiness, head, heedfulness, helpfulness, horsemanship,
     hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitivity, identification,
     indulgence, ingeniousness, ingenuity, irritability, judgement,
     judiciousness, know-how, leniency, making distinctions,
     marksmanship, mastership, mastery, mindfulness, nervousness,
     niceness of distinction, nicety, obligingness, oversensibility,
     oversensitiveness, overtenderness, palate, passibility, perception,
     perceptiveness, perceptivity, photophobia, poise, policy,
     politeness, politesse, politicness, practical ability, presence,
     prickliness, proficiency, prowess, prudence, quickness, readiness,
     refined discrimination, refined palate, refinement, regard,
     regardfulness, repose, resource, resourcefulness, respect,
     respectfulness, responsiveness, savoir faire, savoir-faire, savvy,
     seamanship, selectiveness, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness,
     sensitivity, sensitization, skill, skillfulness, smoothness,
     solicitousness, solicitude, soreness, style, suavity, subtlety,
     supersensitivity, sympathy, tactfulness, taste,
     technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill,
     technique, tenderness, tetchiness, thin skin, thought,
     thoughtfulness, ticklishness, timing, toleration, touchiness,
     understanding, urbanity, virtuosity, wit, wizardry, workmanship
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 机智,手法;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 机智,手法,老练

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