English-Russian translations for tact

• такт
• такти́чность
• тактичность

Definition of tact

• The sense of touch; feeling.
• The stroke in beating time
• A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise
• To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense

Examples

• 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

Related words

• protactinium
• contact
• tactile
• tactic
• tactics
• intact
• táctico
• tactical
• syntactic