"knack" meaning in Anglais

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Noun

IPA: \næk\, \næk\ Audio: en-us-knack.ogg Forms: knacks [plural]
  1. Talent, habileté, chic.
    Sense id: fr-knack-en-noun-2KhfhJhS Categories (other): Exemples en anglais
  2. Petit appareil, jouet, bibelot.
    Sense id: fr-knack-en-noun-pkA2rVgk
  3. Quelque chose qui a été ou doit être accompli, nécessitant de l’habileté et de la dextérité ; un tour, un artifice.
    Sense id: fr-knack-en-noun-rRgzz0d9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (talent, compétence): dexterity, facility, skill

Verb

IPA: \næk\, \næk\ Audio: en-us-knack.ogg Forms: to knack [infinitive], knacks [present, third-person, singular], knacked [preterite], knacked [participle, past], knacking [participle, present]
  1. Parler franchement.
    Sense id: fr-knack-en-verb-B-MI74jc
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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      "parents": [],
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    },
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    "Utilisé en tant que « compétence particulière » dès 1580 ^([1]). Possiblement du moyen anglais du XIVᵉ siècle krak (« un coup violent »), knakke, knakken, issu du moyen bas allemand, par onomatopée. Plus récemment, cognat avec l’allemand knacken (« craquer »)."
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        "\\næks\\"
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          "ref": "William Henry Harvey, Memoir, 26, cité par Ann B. Shteir, ODNB",
          "text": "The happiest knack of finding the rarest and most beautiful plants in the most perfect state",
          "translation": "Le don le plus heureux de trouver les plantes les plus rares et les plus belles dans l’état le plus parfait"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Platon, Sophist, traduction de Lesley Brown, 254a",
          "text": "The sophist runs for cover to the darkness of what is not and attaches himself to it by some knack of his;",
          "translation": "Le sophiste court pour rendre obscur ce qui est clair et s’y attache par un certain talent ;"
        },
        {
          "text": "The Knack …and How to Get It, titre original d’un film réalisé par Richard Lester."
        }
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      ],
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    "Utilisé en tant que « compétence particulière » dès 1580 ^([1]). Possiblement du moyen anglais du XIVᵉ siècle krak (« un coup violent »), knakke, knakken, issu du moyen bas allemand, par onomatopée. Plus récemment, cognat avec l’allemand knacken (« craquer »)."
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          "text": "The happiest knack of finding the rarest and most beautiful plants in the most perfect state",
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        },
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          "ref": "Platon, Sophist, traduction de Lesley Brown, 254a",
          "text": "The sophist runs for cover to the darkness of what is not and attaches himself to it by some knack of his;",
          "translation": "Le sophiste court pour rendre obscur ce qui est clair et s’y attache par un certain talent ;"
        },
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        }
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        "Talent, habileté, chic."
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      "glosses": [
        "Petit appareil, jouet, bibelot."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Quelque chose qui a été ou doit être accompli, nécessitant de l’habileté et de la dextérité ; un tour, un artifice."
      ]
    }
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    },
    {
      "sense": "talent, compétence",
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    }
  ],
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    "Utilisé en tant que « compétence particulière » dès 1580 ^([1]). Possiblement du moyen anglais du XIVᵉ siècle krak (« un coup violent »), knakke, knakken, issu du moyen bas allemand, par onomatopée. Plus récemment, cognat avec l’allemand knacken (« craquer »)."
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        "Parler franchement."
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