Knack

[Knack]

If you have a knack for doing something, you do it well. You may have a knack for baking cakes or a knack for cracking jokes. These things come easy to you.

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To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink.

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"

v. i.
To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink.

v. i.
To speak affectedly.

n.
A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.

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

n.
Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device.

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.

Knack

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

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

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

The fellow . . . has not the knack with his shears.

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

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 !

To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink.

A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.

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Usage Examples

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

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Other Usage Examples

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.