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# tact

«tact» in Mova's school dictionary: **skill in saying or doing the right thing without…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Tact is skill in saying or doing the right thing without upsetting people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tact/#m1)

2) Tact is quick cleverness in dealing with a person or a difficult job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tact/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales a clever, careful way of handling people or a task; in lessons a quality of a good messenger or helper

### examples

- She showed tact when she told him the bad news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tact/#x1)
- He used tact to calm the angry neighbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tact/#x2)
- With his usual tact, he persuaded the hero to come back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tact/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tact» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tact/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.