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Tacit vs Yacht - What's the difference?

tacit | yacht |

As an adjective tacit

is expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.

As a noun yacht is

now less common alternative spelling of jacht.

tacit

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.
  • tacit consent : consent by silence, or by not raising an objection
  • * 1983 , Stanley Rosen, Plato’s'' Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image , page 62:
  • He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.
  • * 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.
  • Derived terms

    * tacitly * tacitness

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    yacht

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}
  • Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
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  • *:“I don’t mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
  • Derived terms

    {{der3, ice yacht , land yacht , motor yacht, motoryacht, MY , sailing yacht, steam yacht, SY , yacht club , yachter , yachting , yachtless , yachtsman}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.
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