Knack vs Girt - What's the difference?
knack | girt |
A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity.
* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
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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.
A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
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(gird)
(nautical) Bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
As nouns the difference between knack and girt
is that knack is a traditional swedish toffee prepared at christmas while girt is a horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.As verbs the difference between knack and girt
is that knack is while girt is to gird or girt can be (gird).As an adjective girt is
(nautical) bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.knack
English
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;
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.}}
References
Verb
(en verb)- (Bishop Hall)
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