Definition of tact

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Tact (n.) Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.

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Hit :: Hit (v. i.) To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.
Tactable :: Tactable (a.) Capable of being touched; tangible.
Superheat :: Superheat (v. t.) To heat, as steam, apart from contact with water, until it resembles a perfect gas..
Sea Cucumber :: Sea cucumber () Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (P. frondosa)..
Join :: "Join (v. t.) To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append..
Toot :: Toot (v. i.) To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown..
Conformability :: Conformability (n.) The parallelism of two sets of strata which are in contact.
Microphone :: Microphone (n.) An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations..
Cleavers :: Cleavers (n.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc..
Intactable :: Intactable (a.) Not perceptible to the touch.
Shear :: Shear (v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact..
Itch :: Itch (n.) An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact..
Tactician :: Tactician (n.) One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager..
Putrescible :: Putrescible (n.) A substance, usually nitrogenous, which is liable to undergo decomposition when in contact with air and moisture at ordinary temperatures..
Breastwheel :: Breastwheel (n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight..
Tentaculum :: Tentaculum (n.) One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair..
Virtue :: Virtue (n.) Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.
Sensitive :: Sensitive (a.) Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays..
Against :: Against (prep.) From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof..
Incontiguous :: Incontiguous (a.) Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate.
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