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Attraction vs Knack - What's the difference?

attraction | knack | Related terms |

Attraction is a related term of knack.


As nouns the difference between attraction and knack

is that attraction is the tendency to attract while knack is a traditional swedish toffee prepared at christmas.

As a verb knack is

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attraction

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The tendency to attract.
  • The feeling of being attracted.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction . A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
  • An event or location that has a tendency to attract visitors.
  • (chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.

    • Synonyms

    * charm * pull

    Antonyms

    * repulsion

    knack

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity.
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
    • The sophist runs for conver to the darkness of what is not and attaches himself to it by some knack of his;
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 2 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Bolton 1–5 Chelsea , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=And the Premier League's all-time top-goalscoring midfielder proved he has not lost the knack of being in the right place at the right time with a trio of clinical finishes.}}
  • A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.
  • Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device.

    • References

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise; to chink.
    • (Bishop Hall)
  • To speak affectedly.
    • (Halliwell)