Effective vs Tacit - What's the difference?
effective | tacit |
Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
Producing a decided or decisive effect.
* Jeremy Taylor
Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.
Actually in effect.
Having no negative coefficients.
(military) A soldier fit for duty.
*1876 , , Recollections of the Elkhorn Campaign :
*:The Army of the West reached Corinth sometime after the battle of Shiloh. We were 15,000 effectives , and brought Beauregard's effective force up to 45,000 men.
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Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.
* 1983 , Stanley Rosen, Plato’s'' Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image , page 62:
* 2004 , Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary (Lawrence Pratchett, ?Vivien Lowndes; ISBN 9287155798):
(logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.
As adjectives the difference between effective and tacit
is that effective is having the power to produce a required effect or effects while tacit is expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.As a noun effective
is (military) a soldier fit for duty.effective
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The pill is an effective method of birth control.
- The president delivered an effective speech!
- Whosoever is an effective , real cause of doing his neighbour wrong, is criminal.
- How long does it take to make a bunch of civilians an effective military force?
- My effective income after taxes and child support is $500 a month.
- The effective radiated power is determined by multiplying the transmitter power output with the antenna gain.
- The effective voltage of an alternating current is 0.7 times its peak voltage.
- The curfew is effective at midnight.
Noun
(en noun)tacit
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- tacit consent : consent by silence, or by not raising an objection
- He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.
