tactとは

語源

Borrowed from Latin tactus.

発音

• 韻: -ækt

名詞

tact (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tacts)

1. The sense of touch; feeling.
   • Robert Southey

     Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight?

   • J. Le Conte

     Now, sight is a very refined tact.

2. (music) The stroke in beating time.
3. Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
   • Thomas Babington Macaulay

     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.

   • Thomas Babington Macaulay

     A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much as the tact of her sex surpassed the tact of ours.

4. The ability to deal with embarrassing situations carefully and without doing or saying anything that will annoy or upset other people; careful consideration in dealing with others to avoid giving offense; the ability to say the right thing.

   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.

5. slang abbreviation of tactic
   • 2006 "Block Party", Corner Gas

     Wanda "Hey, can you show us?"
     Karen "No"
     Brent "We promise not to make fun of you."
     Karen "No"
     Lacey "Okay, we promise TO make fun of you."
     Karen "I'm getting a drink"
     Lacey "I was trying a different tact."
     Wanda "Bad tack."

6. (psychology) A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, または property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).
   • 2013, Jacob L. Gewirtz, William M. Kurtines, Jacob L. Lamb, Intersections With Attachment

     Skinner (1957) saw such tacts as responses that are reinforced socially.

派生語

• tactful
• tactless

動詞

tact (三人称単数 現在形 tacts, 現在分詞 tacting, 過去形および過去分詞形 tacted)

1. (psychology) To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense).

Further reading

• tact in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• tact in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

アナグラム

• Catt