What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Tact vs Taco - What's the difference?

tact | taco |

As nouns the difference between tact and taco

is that tact is the sense of touch; feeling while taco is a Mexican snack food; a small tortilla with some rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables (usually tomatoes and lettuce, as served in the United States) and salsa.

As a verb tact

is to use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense).

tact

English

(wikipedia tact) (Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The sense of touch; feeling.
  • *
    • Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight?
  • * J. Le Conte
    • Now, sight is a very refined tact .
  • (music) The stroke in beating time.
  • Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
  • *
    • He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin.
  • *
    • A tact' which surpassed the '''tact''' of her sex as much as the '''tact''' of her sex surpassed the ' tact of ours.
  • The ability to deal with embarrassing situations carefully and without doing or saying anything that will annoy or upset other people; careful consideration in dealing with others to avoid giving offense; the ability to say the right thing.
    • By the use of tact , she was able to calm her jealous husband.
    I used tact when I told my fat uncle that his extra weight made him look better.
  • (psychology) A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).
  • * 2013 , Jacob L. Gewirtz, William M. Kurtines, Jacob L. Lamb, Intersections With Attachment
    • Skinner (1957) saw such tacts as responses that are reinforced socially.

    Derived terms

    * tactful * tactless

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (psychology) To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense).

    • External links

    * * ----

    taco

    English

    (wikipedia taco)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Mexican snack food; a small tortilla with some rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables (usually tomatoes and lettuce, as served in the United States) and salsa.
  • (US, slang) the vulva. also called pink taco
  • * 2007 , Various, Sex & Seduction: 20 Erotic Stories , Accent Press Ltd., page 130,
    • ... while grinding her pink taco into my groin as if trying to gain even more of my sizable ...
  • * 2009 , Albert Mudrian, Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces , Da Capo Press, page 159
  • *:...zombies have to eat and the best place to on any female is the pink taco .
  • (US, slang) A yellow stain on shirt armpit caused by sweat or deodorant.

    • Anagrams

    * * * * English borrowed terms ----