Knack vs Expertise - What's the difference?
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A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity.
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A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.
Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise; to chink.
To speak affectedly.
Great skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby
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advice, or opinion, of an expert
As nouns the difference between knack and expertise
is that knack is a readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity while expertise is great skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby.As a verb knack
is to crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise; to chink.knack
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Noun
(en noun)- The sophist runs for conver to the darkness of what is not and attaches himself to it by some knack of his;
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References
Verb
(en verb)- (Bishop Hall)
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expertise
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Noun
(wikipedia expertise) (-)- The scientist has expertise in the field of nuclear fusion.
Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian , 8 September 2014:
- He spoke of Scotland's hydroelectric projects in Africa, local expertise shared with the world's poor.
