tactn.

Brit.

/takt/, U.S.

/tæk(t)/

Etymology: < (immediately or ultimately) Latin tactus touch, < participial stem of tangĕre to touch: compare French tact (14th cent. in sense 1), German tact , takt (1619 in sense 4).

I. Senses relating to touch, perception, or judgement.

a. The sense of touch; touch. In quot. 1809 transferred. [So in Latin; French tact (14th cent. in Littré).]

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > [noun]

gropingc1000

toucha1398

feela1400

tastea1400

tastinga1400

touching?c1400

tact1651

c1200 Vices & Virtues 17 Ða fif wittes..þat is, visus, auditus, gustus, ordoratus, et tactus, þat is ȝesihthe, ȝeherhþe, smac, and smell, and tactþe.]

1651 A. Ross Arcana Microcosmi ii. xxi. 110 Of all the creatures, the sense of tact is most exquisite in man.1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. III. 102 Such is the delicacy of their [divining or mineral rods'] tact, that the weakest power is sufficient to determine them.1865 G. Grote Plato II. xxvi. 370 The various Percepta or Percipienda of tact, vision, hearing—sweet, hot, hard, light—have each its special bodily organ.1881 J. Le Conte Sight 77 Sight is a very refined tact.

b. figurative. A keen faculty of perception or discrimination likened to the sense of touch.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [noun]

shedc950

skilla1200

skillwisenessa1200

doomc1374

subtilitya1398

subtiltyc1405

subtletya1425

dijudication1549

choice1583

decernment1586

quiddity1602

discerning1608

discernance1612

sensea1616

sense of things1648

tact1797

appreciation1810

kokum1848

1797 W. Tooke Life Catherine II II. 206 It was from his genius alone that he had seized the character of other nations, and it shews a niceness of tact exceedingly rare.

1802 S. T. Coleridge Let. to W. Sotheby in Lett. (1895) 397 You..must needs have a better tact of what will offend that class of readers.

1842 H. E. Manning Serm. ii. 22 To..deaden the keen tact of conscience.

1876 J. R. Green Stray Stud. Eng. & Italy 120 The popular voice showed a singular historical tact in its mistake.

2. Ready and delicate sense of what is fitting and proper in dealing with others, so as to avoid giving offence, or win good will; skill or judgement in dealing with men or negotiating difficult or delicate situations; the faculty of saying or doing the right thing at the right time. [ < French tact (Voltaire 1769).]

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety > sense of fittingness in dealing with others

tact1804

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skill in managing or directing > artful management in dealing with others

tact1804

diplomacy1848

subtlety1903

1801 D. Stewart Outl. Moral Philos. (ed. 2) i. 6 The use made in the French tongue of the word Tact, to denote that delicate sense of propriety which enables a man to feel his way in the difficult intercourse of polished society.]

1804–6 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) xii. 154 We have begun, though of late years, to use the word tact.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. iv. 35 A most delicate task; requiring tact.

1875 A. Helps Secrecy in Ess. 55 Few persons have tact enough to perceive when to be silent, and when to offer you counsel or condolence.

1892 R. B. Brett in 19th Cent. Jan. 22 That fine instinct in the management of men which is commonly called tact.

†3. The act of touching or handling; an instance of this, a touch. Obsolete. rare. [So in Latin]

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > [noun]

riningOE

touchingc1300

taking1340

toucha1387

tastea1400

atouchment1483

tuckingc1485

tacture1598

taction1623

contaction1628

tactation1688

tig1721

tact1801

skinship1966

1801 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) III. 467 I judged from a tact of the southern pulse.

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 64 Others that are harmless in tact.

II. A stroke or tap.

4. Music. A stroke in beating time; = beat n.¹ 4. [= (German) Latin tactus, Adam v. Fulda 1490; German tact, Prätorius 1619.]

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > keeping time > beating time > stroke in beating time

stroke1576

tact1609

tactus1740

beat1911

1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 46 Tact is a successive motion in singing, directing the equalitie of the measure.

1614 T. Ravenscroft Briefe Disc. Musicke 20 Tact, Touch or Time, is, a certaine Motion of the hand (whereby the Quantity of Notes and Rests are directed) by an equall Measure.

1777 R. Donkin Mil. Coll. 161 Count Saxe recommends the tact, or marching en cadence.]

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tact,..formerly the stroke in beating time in music.

1891 Cent. Dict. Tact..in music, a beat or pulse; especially, the emphatic down-beat with which a measure begins; hence, also, a measure.

III. Technical uses.

5. Psychology. [Final element of con)tact.] B. F. Skinner's term for an utterance which is evoked by an object, event, etc., and reinforces the learning of a response. Hence as v. transitive, to respond to (a stimulus) with an utterance; intransitive, to utter words or sounds in this way. Cf. mand n.¹

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > response > [noun] > utterance reinforcing response

tact1954

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > response > respond [verb (transitive)] > respond verbally

tact1954

1954 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Aug. 181 Skinner..describes how a child learns to emit ‘tacts’ (i.e. verbal responses controlled by properties of objects or situations) under the influence of ‘generalized reinforcers’, particularly approval.

1957 B. F. Skinner Verbal Behavior v. 81 There is no suitable term for this type of operant... The invented word ‘tact’ will be used here. The term carries a mnemonic suggestion of behavior which ‘makes contact with’ the physical world. A tact may be defined as a verbal operant in which a response of given form is evoked (or at least strengthened) by a particular object.

1959 Anthropol. Ling. 1 i. 41 It is interesting to speculate how far the program for the acquisition of mands and tacts will account for all verbal behavior.

1964 A. W. Staats Human Learning iii. 73/2 The child learns in this manner to tact environmental events as well as objects.

Derivatives

ˈtacted adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > response > [adjective] > verbal

tacted1969

1969 B. F. Skinner Contingencies of Reinforcement viii. 254 The close relation between the topography of behavior and the tacted stimulus.

ˈtacting n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > response > [noun] > utterance reinforcing response > controlled by antecedents

tacting1977

1977 Listener 5 May 597/2 What is nowadays called ‘tacting’ (i.e., verbal behaviour controlled primarily by its antecedents—in this case the sight of the milk)... Victor was evidently conditioned only to tact.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tact
释义	tactn. Brit. /takt/, U.S. /tæk(t)/ Etymology: < (immediately or ultimately) Latin tactus touch, < participial stem of tangĕre to touch: compare French tact (14th cent. in sense 1), German tact , takt (1619 in sense 4). I. Senses relating to touch, perception, or judgement. 1. a. The sense of touch; touch. In quot. 1809 transferred. [So in Latin; French tact (14th cent. in Littré).] ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > [noun] gropingc1000 toucha1398 feela1400 tastea1400 tastinga1400 touching?c1400 tact1651 c1200 Vices & Virtues 17 Ða fif wittes..þat is, visus, auditus, gustus, ordoratus, et tactus, þat is ȝesihthe, ȝeherhþe, smac, and smell, and tactþe.] 1651 A. Ross Arcana Microcosmi ii. xxi. 110 Of all the creatures, the sense of tact is most exquisite in man.1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. III. 102 Such is the delicacy of their [divining or mineral rods'] tact, that the weakest power is sufficient to determine them.1865 G. Grote Plato II. xxvi. 370 The various Percepta or Percipienda of tact, vision, hearing—sweet, hot, hard, light—have each its special bodily organ.1881 J. Le Conte Sight 77 Sight is a very refined tact. b. figurative. A keen faculty of perception or discrimination likened to the sense of touch. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [noun] shedc950 skilla1200 skillwisenessa1200 doomc1374 subtilitya1398 subtiltyc1405 subtletya1425 dijudication1549 choice1583 decernment1586 quiddity1602 discerning1608 discernance1612 sensea1616 sense of things1648 tact1797 appreciation1810 kokum1848 1797 W. Tooke Life Catherine II II. 206 It was from his genius alone that he had seized the character of other nations, and it shews a niceness of tact exceedingly rare. 1802 S. T. Coleridge Let. to W. Sotheby in Lett. (1895) 397 You..must needs have a better tact of what will offend that class of readers. 1842 H. E. Manning Serm. ii. 22 To..deaden the keen tact of conscience. 1876 J. R. Green Stray Stud. Eng. & Italy 120 The popular voice showed a singular historical tact in its mistake. 2. Ready and delicate sense of what is fitting and proper in dealing with others, so as to avoid giving offence, or win good will; skill or judgement in dealing with men or negotiating difficult or delicate situations; the faculty of saying or doing the right thing at the right time. [ < French tact (Voltaire 1769).] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety > sense of fittingness in dealing with others tact1804 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skill in managing or directing > artful management in dealing with others tact1804 diplomacy1848 subtlety1903 1801 D. Stewart Outl. Moral Philos. (ed. 2) i. 6 The use made in the French tongue of the word Tact, to denote that delicate sense of propriety which enables a man to feel his way in the difficult intercourse of polished society.] 1804–6 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) xii. 154 We have begun, though of late years, to use the word tact. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. iv. 35 A most delicate task; requiring tact. 1875 A. Helps Secrecy in Ess. 55 Few persons have tact enough to perceive when to be silent, and when to offer you counsel or condolence. 1892 R. B. Brett in 19th Cent. Jan. 22 That fine instinct in the management of men which is commonly called tact. †3. The act of touching or handling; an instance of this, a touch. Obsolete. rare. [So in Latin] ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > [noun] riningOE touchingc1300 taking1340 toucha1387 tastea1400 atouchment1483 tuckingc1485 tacture1598 taction1623 contaction1628 tactation1688 tig1721 tact1801 skinship1966 1801 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) III. 467 I judged from a tact of the southern pulse. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 64 Others that are harmless in tact. II. A stroke or tap. 4. Music. A stroke in beating time; = beat n.¹ 4. [= (German) Latin tactus, Adam v. Fulda 1490; German tact, Prätorius 1619.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > keeping time > beating time > stroke in beating time stroke1576 tact1609 tactus1740 beat1911 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 46 Tact is a successive motion in singing, directing the equalitie of the measure. 1614 T. Ravenscroft Briefe Disc. Musicke 20 Tact, Touch or Time, is, a certaine Motion of the hand (whereby the Quantity of Notes and Rests are directed) by an equall Measure. 1777 R. Donkin Mil. Coll. 161 Count Saxe recommends the tact, or marching en cadence.] 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tact,..formerly the stroke in beating time in music. 1891 Cent. Dict. Tact..in music, a beat or pulse; especially, the emphatic down-beat with which a measure begins; hence, also, a measure. III. Technical uses. 5. Psychology. [Final element of con)tact.] B. F. Skinner's term for an utterance which is evoked by an object, event, etc., and reinforces the learning of a response. Hence as v. transitive, to respond to (a stimulus) with an utterance; intransitive, to utter words or sounds in this way. Cf. mand n.¹ ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > response > [noun] > utterance reinforcing response tact1954 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > response > respond [verb (transitive)] > respond verbally tact1954 1954 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Aug. 181 Skinner..describes how a child learns to emit ‘tacts’ (i.e. verbal responses controlled by properties of objects or situations) under the influence of ‘generalized reinforcers’, particularly approval. 1957 B. F. Skinner Verbal Behavior v. 81 There is no suitable term for this type of operant... The invented word ‘tact’ will be used here. The term carries a mnemonic suggestion of behavior which ‘makes contact with’ the physical world. A tact may be defined as a verbal operant in which a response of given form is evoked (or at least strengthened) by a particular object. 1959 Anthropol. Ling. 1 i. 41 It is interesting to speculate how far the program for the acquisition of mands and tacts will account for all verbal behavior. 1964 A. W. Staats Human Learning iii. 73/2 The child learns in this manner to tact environmental events as well as objects. Derivatives ˈtacted adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > response > [adjective] > verbal tacted1969 1969 B. F. Skinner Contingencies of Reinforcement viii. 254 The close relation between the topography of behavior and the tacted stimulus. ˈtacting n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > response > [noun] > utterance reinforcing response > controlled by antecedents tacting1977 1977 Listener 5 May 597/2 What is nowadays called ‘tacting’ (i.e., verbal behaviour controlled primarily by its antecedents—in this case the sight of the milk)... Victor was evidently conditioned only to tact. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1609
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