Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not spoken.
- adjective Implied by or inferred from actions or statements.
- adjective Archaic Not speaking; silent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Silent; quiescent; giving out no sound.
- Silently indicated or implied; understood from conditions or circumstances; inferred or inferable; expressed otherwise than by speech; indirectly manifested or communicated; wordless.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Done or made in
silence ;implied , but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection. - adjective logic Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on
induction rather than deduction.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective implied by or inferred from actions or statements
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The following is a decisive, though what we call a tacit reference to
Evidence of Christianity William Paley 1774
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A dying LBJ retired to Texas and let his hair grow long, some say in tacit allegiance to the anti-war protesters who once marched outside his White House.
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Destabilizing Iran goads Pakistan into the conflict (or their intelligence agency, anyway), would shift several of the ex-Soviet Central Asian republics closer to Russia and in tacit support of Iran, may cause Turkey to leave NATO, will lead to Lebanon and Syria launching an invasion of Israel …
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Consequently, both sides have exhibited considerable restraint and have chosen to eschew horizontal escalation and not to violate certain tacit thresholds.
Russ Wellen: Do Nuclear Weapons Keep India and Pakistan From Each Other's Throats? Russ Wellen 2010
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The firm, in tacit collaboration with the other firms in the industry, has wholly sufficient power to set and maintain minimum prices.
The Non-Economist's Economist James Grant 2010
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Consequently, both sides have exhibited considerable restraint and have chosen to eschew horizontal escalation and not to violate certain tacit thresholds.
Russ Wellen: Do Nuclear Weapons Keep India and Pakistan From Each Other's Throats? Russ Wellen 2010
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Consequently, both sides have exhibited considerable restraint and have chosen to eschew horizontal escalation and not to violate certain tacit thresholds.
Russ Wellen: Do Nuclear Weapons Keep India and Pakistan From Each Other's Throats? Russ Wellen 2010
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Are they all just sitting on their hands in tacit alliance with the Jihadist ideas?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Another European Prosecution for Insulting Religion 2010
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Consequently, both sides have exhibited considerable restraint and have chosen to eschew horizontal escalation and not to violate certain tacit thresholds.
Russ Wellen: Do Nuclear Weapons Keep India and Pakistan From Each Other's Throats? Russ Wellen 2010
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Nevertheless, there was a certain tacit understanding, without any obligation, a certain tacit understanding, that the probability was that if war broke out we would all find ourselves in it together, and it followed from that that we were prepared in times of peace to get together and try to coordinate our actions.
Fiftieth Anniversary Meeting: Some Aspects of the Commonwealth 1953
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