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tact

такт, тактичность

чутливість

Takt, Taktgefühl

Sensitive mental touchSensitive 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.

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/tækt/

» Tom lacks tact.

Тому не хватает такта.

Тому бракує такту.

Значение

значений: 5

(неисчисляемое)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.
Takt, Taktgefühl
тактtakt, такти́чностьtaktíčnostʹ
(неисчисляемое)Propriety; manners (etiquette).
(исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)The sense of touch; feeling.
(исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)The stroke in beating time.
(исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)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).

Ещё определения

consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense

Примеры

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Tom lacks tact.
Тому не хватает такта. — marafon
ukТому бракує такту. — deniko
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He lacks tact.
Ему не хватает такта. — marafon
deEr fehlt ihm an Taktgefühl. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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Life is a matter of tact.
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You don't always have to say what's on your mind; sometimes tact trumps candor.
deMan muß nicht immer sagen, was einem durch den Kopf geht. Manchmal ist Takt besser als Offenheit. — Waldelfe
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Tom has all the tact and manners of a zoo animal at feeding time.
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Переводы

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Русский

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Deutsch

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Происхождение

Borrowed from French tact, following a semantic shift from earlier tact (“sense of touch;

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.

Directly borrowed from Latin tāctus.

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