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The correct spelling is tact.
How to pronounce tact
/tækt/
nounIPA: /tækt/
Say it like: Tac-t
The correct spelling is tact. The sense of touch; feeling. For example: "By the use of tact, she was able to calm her jealous husband."
Usage Examples
“By the use of tact, she was able to calm her jealous husband.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.The sense of touch; feeling.
- 2.The stroke in beating time.
- 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.
- 4.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).
- 5.A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.
verb
- 1.To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense).
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