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Grace vs Knack - What's the difference?

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Grace is a related term of knack.


As a proper noun grace

is (label) , equivalent to english (grace).

As a noun knack is

a traditional swedish toffee prepared at christmas.

As a verb knack is

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grace

English

(wikipedia grace)

Noun

  • (not countable) Elegant movement; poise or balance.
  • (not countable) Charming, pleasing qualities.
  • * 1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations
    • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace : the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
  • * Blair
    • I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing.
  • (not countable, theology) Free and undeserved favour, especially of God. Unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification.
  • (not countable, theology) Divine assistance in resisting sin.
  • (countable) Short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
  • (finance) An allowance of time granted for a debtor during which he is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.
  • (card games) A special move in a solitaire or patience game that is normally against the rules.

    • Related terms

    * begrace * good graces * graceful * graceless * gracious * grateful * gratitude * say grace * ungrace

    Verb

    (grac)
  • To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
    • He graced the room with his presence.
    He graced the room by simply being there.
    His portrait graced a landing on the stairway.
  • * (rfdate) (Alexander Pope)
    • Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.
  • * (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
    • We are graced with wreaths of victory.
  • To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
  • * (rfdate) (Knolles)
    • He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he would in court.
  • To supply with heavenly grace.
    • (Bishop Hall)
  • (music) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    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)