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–noun
1.a special skill, talent, or aptitude: He had a knack for saying the right thing.
2.a clever or adroit way of doing something.
3.a trick or ruse.
4.a sharp, cracking sound.
5.Archaic. a knickknack; trinket.

[Origin: 1325–75; ME: trick; perh. same word as knak sharp-sounding blow, rap, cracking noise (imit.)]

1. aptness, facility, dexterity.
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knack    Audio Help   (nāk)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A clever, expedient way of doing something.
  2. A specific talent for something, especially one difficult to explain or teach. See Synonyms at art1.
  3. Archaic
    1. A cleverly designed device.
    2. A knickknack.


[Middle English knakke, from Middle Dutch cnacken, to strike, crack, probably of imitative origin.]

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knack 
1369, "deception, trick, device," of uncertain origin, probably from a Low Ger. word meaning "a sharp sounding blow" (cf. M.E. knak, c.1380; Ger. knacken "to crack"), of imitative origin. Sense of "special skill" is first recorded 1581, if this is in fact the same word.

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knack

noun
a special way of doing something; "he had a bent for it"; "he had a special knack for getting into trouble"; "he couldn't get the hang of it" [syn: bent

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knack [nӕk] noun
the ability to do something skilfully and easily
Example: It took me some time to learn the knack of making pancakes.
Arabic: مَهارَه، بَراعَه
Chinese (Simplified): 技巧
Chinese (Traditional): 技巧
Czech: dovednost, cvik
Danish: håndelag
Dutch: vaardigheid
Estonian: oskus
Finnish: taito
French: truc
German: der Dreh
Greek: η ικανότητα να κάνει κπ. κτ. με άνεση
Hungarian: fortély
Icelandic: handlag
Indonesian: keahlian
Italian: abilità, trucco
Japanese: こつ
Korean: 비결, 요령
Latvian: prasme; ķēriens
Lithuanian: įgūdis
Norwegian: håndlag, knep
Polish: sztuka
Portuguese (Brazil): jeito
Portuguese (Portugal): habilidade
Romanian: dibăcie, pri­ce­pere
Russian: сноровка
Slovak: zručnosť
Slovenian: spretnost
Spanish: truco, habilidad
Swedish: skicklighet, gott handlag, grepp, knep, kläm
Turkish: yetenek, kabiliyet, hüner
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Knack

Knack\, v. i. [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. G. knacken to break, Dan. knage to crack, and E. knock.]

1. To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Bp. Hall.

2. To speak affectedly. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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Knack

Knack\, n. 1. A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.

A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap. --Shak.

2. A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity.

The fellow . . . has not the knack with his shears. --B. Jonson.

The dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. --Swift.

3. Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device. "The knacks of japers." --Chaucer.

For how should equal colors do the knack ! --Pope.
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