mindmap root((TANG/TACT)) tact The ability to deal with others without offending them.
🌱Already at 16 his daughter showed remarkable tact in dealing with adults, which she certainly hadn't gotten from him. 🌳This word came to English directly from French （a Latin-based language）, where it can also mean simply "sense of touch." Dealing with difficult situations involving other people can require the kind of extreme sensitivity that our fingertips possess. As Lincoln once said, "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves," which doesn't usually come naturally. Someone tactful can soothe the feelings of the most difficult people; a tactless person will generally make a bad situation worse. tactile 1、 Able to be perceived by touching.
2、 Relating to the sense of touch.
🌱He always enjoyed the tactile sensation of running his hand over the lush turf. 🌳If you set your cell phone to vibrate rather than ring, you're taking the tactile option. Educators believe that some students are naturally "tactile learners," much better at "hands-on" learning than at tasks that involve patient listening and reading. Many longtime readers resist using e-books, saying they miss the tactile sensations of leafing through an actual book. And the blind, using the raised dots of the braille alphabet, rely entirely on their tactile sense to read; some can actually read as fast as the average person can read out loud. tangential Touching lightly; incidental.
🌱The government is trying to determine if the extremists were deeply involved or if their relationship to the suspect was merely tangential. 🌳In geometry, a tangent is a straight line that touches a curve at a single point. So we say that someone who starts talking about one thing and gets sidetracked has gone off on a tangent. The new subject is tangential to the first subject—it touches it and moves off in a different direction. tangible Able to be perceived, especially by touch; physical, substantial.
🌱The snow was tangible evidence that winter had really come. 🌳Something that's literally tangible can be touched. A rock is tangible, and so is a broken window; if the rock is lying next to the window, it could be tangible evidence of vandalism. When we say that the tension in a room is tangible, we mean we feel it so strongly that it seems almost physical. But if we're being literal, tension, like hope, happiness, and hunger, is literally intangible—it may be real, but it can't be touched. When lawyers talk about an intangible asset, they might mean something like a company's good reputation—very valuable, but not quite touchable.